We receive a lot of questions from BookScouters about textbook arbitrage outside of the United States. Usually these messages ask about international shipping. While BookScouter.com is accessible anywhere in the world, keep in mind that most of the vendors buying and selling books on our site are based in the United States.
At the end of the semester, you don’t need most of those crazily expensive textbooks any longer. What can you do to them to get at least a fraction of the price you paid? Or maybe, there’s a way to sell used books more profitably? There’re a few options. In this article, we’ll look at several places where to sell textbooks, and you’ll be able to compare and choose the best one.
Obvious truth as it may be, it always bears repeating—college is costly.
Although tuition is always the first and foremost expense everyone worries about, the price of college books continues on an endless uphill climb. Specifically, college textbook prices have increased by over 1,000% since the 1970s.
Sadly enough, most college books have a short utility timespan. After fulfilling their purpose, their fate will likely be that of a dust collector on a bookshelf or in a forgotten drawer. Unless, of course, you SELL them.
Previous blogs mention the importance of taking care of your books so you can get the most money at resale. A book’s condition affects the price you receive in return, but other factors also affect how much money you get when you sell textbooks.
Is this something you face at the end of each semester?
| “I feel really bad just throwing my textbooks away knowing they could help someone, but in most of them there is at least a bit of writing for example I highlighted topics that were in the advanced information for science and sometimes I ticked off practice questions that I did. Is there any place that accepts books like this or do they have to be super new to be sold?” |
—Redditor Emotional_Alarm8279
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Selling textbooks on Amazon is nothing but lucrative and rewarding! But like most profitable ventures, it is no easy feat. Here is your guide to cracking the success code!
BookScouter is a book price comparison platform that helps you find where to sell, buy, and rent used books at the best prices and makes this process easy by quickly searching all the vendor websites for you. That’s why it is the easiest and most convenient place to sell books.
In this guide, we’ll closely look at how you use BookScouter when you want to sell your books and need to find the vendor with the most beneficial offer.
You can now get email notifications when the price hits your desired threshold for any of the 200.000+ books listed on BookScouter.com. We give you Buyback Price Alerts.
Timing is essential for many things. From delivering an excellent joke to asking for a raise, mastering the timing is half the work. So, when it comes to selling your textbooks, we want to equip you with time-tested wisdom for when to make the sale.
You no longer need to worry about the “when?” question. Our team has been monitoring the best times to sell your textbooks for high sell rates and higher price points since we started in 2007.
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