Expensive College Text Books or Course Packs Instead

By Katarina Bader

Every semester, I am amazed again at how expensive college text books can be. It is not that there are no ways to buy cheap text books. There absolutely are. The problem is that the professors wait for too long, order too few college text books to the stories, or order them to the wrong stores the ones that charge the highest prices. If I had time to buy every college text book online, I would never have to pay an exorbitant fee. I would be able to get a good deal on all of my reading material. As it stands, there are often not enough used text books to go around. Some classes change their reading material too frequently, while other professors are actually designing new classes every the semester. It is not fair to us poor students.

Some professors in my opinion the nice ones get around the problem of expensive college text books by using course packs instead. Course packs are much easier and cheaper alternative to text books. Because you have them printed yourself at copy shops, you can get course packs for a fraction of what college text books cost. There really is no comparison. The only problem is that course packs do not last nearly as long, and often the quality is lower. Because you are making the copies yourself, there can be small errors that slip into a college course pack. Nonetheless, I vastly prefer them to college text books. I do not care that they are more cheaply bound, or that they do not look as pretty. They have all the information that they need, and they are often more up to date than college text books.

If you do have time, you should look at the course materials ahead of time. If you plan it right, you can often get your college text books online by the second week of class. In the meantime, you can keep up on the reading by borrowing the college text books of your classmates. Although this approach can be somewhat inconvenient, it still saves you a lot of money and so is better in the long run. If you are really on the ball, you can find text books used before they run out. Used college text books are often much more affordable than new ones, and they are usually still in pretty good condition. The problem is that they are in such demand. Everyone wants one.

Katarina Bader http://www.baderbiz.com/ I have a site about college education and student resources.

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College Book Stores

By Josh Riverside

College bookstores can be found in most cities and inside college or university campuses. Using the Internet, one can find literally hundreds and thousands of online book stores. There is a wide variety of options and choices available to students all around the world.

The college textbook market is quite complicated with frequent fluctuations in pricing. Publishers are often accused of coming out with newer edition of books at unnecessary frequencies, which students feel is a deliberate act to make the older versions obsolete. This allegation is refuted by the publishers who feel that they are providing the most current information, by coming out with frequent revisions. Publishers and college book stores are dependent on each for their survival, with each one of them being in the market for making money.

In addition to books, one can find extra materials in the form of CDs in college book stores. Since CDs are cheap to produce and can store vast information, they are becoming popular options, replacing paper text books. Teaching professionals have welcomed such tools, which provide great information to their students. Most of the publishers also have a bundled offer along with college text books in the form of CDs or certain Web resources that can be accessed with the help of the disks.

Many college book stores also sell custom versions of textbooks written by certain professors or meant for only certain universities. There are many college book stores which deal with used books. Students generally sell their books to these book stores, when they are done with the classes. The stores, in turn, sell the used books at a discount to students who will be taking the class the following semester.

It is easy to locate college bookstores. They are all over, on university campuses or they could even be in your neighborhood. Alternately, you can get your books from online stores, which stock thousands of books. Online bookstores, too, have bundled offers and discounts from time to time.

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