Free Textbooks for the Coming School Year
Whether you are a prospective college student looking for ways to save money for your future educational endeavors, a current college student getting your general ed and B.A., or a business student pursuing your M.B.A., free textbooks sounds like good news. Unless you are lucky enough to acquire yourself e-book editions of class texts, free textbooks could mean the difference between a ordering a beef bowl for lunch or microwaving a cup of top ramen.
Book Mooch is a great place to start acquiring your textbooks legally, for free. Trade in your old, unused books for points–it doesn’t have to be a textbook, any old thing on your shelves will do–and turn your points in for someone else’s used book. Textbooks are common at book trading sites like this because most students have zero interest in hanging onto Introduction to Calculus once they finish Calculus I.
Rice University also has a website, Connexions, that offers free textbooks for students to learn from. This is a valuable online resource for all current and prospective college students looking for an affordable means to get through school.
Textbook Media charges small fees for many of their business college textbooks, but there are still others that are free. They work with publishers to offer quality texts at more affordable prices. Students are not the only ones that recognize how astronomically out-of-hand textbook prices really are.
Lastly, check out Free Textbooks Internet Library. This is a directory to some of the hundreds of sites out there that offer free texts so that you may branch out to all the resources possible for your business textbook and college textbook needs.
College is expensive, but that does not mean you can find ways to bargain shop yourself towards a quality higher education. In recessive times like these, any means to save some expenses is a boon. Start the school year off right this semester by doing some textbook savings research!
