Find Cheaper Books from Third Party Vendors

[OldJoeCurwen]

To find the particular bibliographic details on specific editions, OCLC WorldCat is simply great. If you access WorldCat through your local library, you can also often use it to get copies of books through Interlibrary Loan. Sometimes that can be a great option compared to purchase of a book.

[Puabond]

The thing that pisses me off is the publishers produce much cheaper versions of the books they do not want the american market to have access to.

Always look online for a book when there is a book that is the (insert school name) edition of the book.

Buy IE when you can, but they are usually in metric, which isn't a huge deal, and rarely do your professors care. Got Mechanics of Materials Hibbeler (8th e) International edition new, $50, vs $137.25@campus

dealoz.com is a great site to start.