We’ve been adding more textbook sources on BookFinder.com, leading to even lower prices on college textbooks.
We did a survey of six sample courselists from three U.S. universities, checking prices at local campus bookstores, and comparing them to the prices we found on BookFinder.com; we were happily surprised by the results.
There are substantial savings buying a semester’s worth of textbooks from BookFinder.com:
- $175.75 (54%) saved vs. buying the cheapest copies at local campus stores
- $278.69 (65%) saved vs. buying new books at local campus stores
| Courselist | Campus store | BookFinder cheapest |
Savings vs. campus store new |
Savings vs. campus store cheapest |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Cheapest | $ | % | $ | % | ||
| Iowa State “fuzzy” Econ 101, History 222, Comm Studies 102, Math 8 |
$488.00 | $365.80 | $132.23 | $355.77 | 73% | $233.57 | 64% |
| Iowa State “techie” Engl 101C, Chem 160, Math 140, Geol 100 |
$428.40 | $321.20 | $86.89 | $341.51 | 80% | $234.31 | 73% |
| UC Berkeley pre-computer sci Engg 10, Phil 12A, Engl 31AC, CompSci 61A |
$416.05 | $322.40 | $169.46 | $246.59 | 59% | $152.94 | 47% |
| UC Berkeley possible-premed Bio 1B, Stat 131, Spanish 1, English 25 |
$479.65 | $374.40 | $185.93 | $293.72 | 61% | $188.47 | 50% |
| Duke art/classics ArtHist 70 & 103, Vis Arts 54, Relig 20S |
$469.93 | $353.00 | $184.21 | $285.72 | 61% | $168.79 | 48% |
| Duke political science / policy Econ 49S, HealthPol 111, PoliSci 101, Stat 10 |
$290.43 | $218.00 | $141.59 | $148.84 | 51% | $76.41 | 35% |
| Average of all courselists | $428.74 | $325.80 | $150.05 | $278.69 | 65% | $175.75 | 54% |
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