Save 54% on textbooks at BookFinder.com
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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Comments
Hate to use this channel to contact you, but there is a problem with the "interact" page on Bookfinder.com (http://www.bookfinder.com/interact/comments/#). All of the apparent entries onn the page seem to link back to the page itself. You may wish to check it.
My original problem is that I have been looking for a particular title for a year. It finally appeared two weeks ago as part of the inventory of the Dutch company Van Stockum (which I assumed you added at the time). The problem is that Van Stockum is one of those firms that lists every book ever published, not just books it can provide. This is very annoying.
Posted by: Roger Horky | January 21, 2008 10:35 PM