College textbooks have kept up with the rising cost of tuition. I teach at a community college with an average tuition cost of 1,100 dollars a semester. Most of my students that carry a full class load usually pay over 500 dollars each semester for college books. The textbook for my course is over 130 dollars. A used book for my course runs around 85 dollars at the campus bookstore. There are never enough used books.
A textbook is a "must have" item for my course. I decided to find out if there was way that I could help students reduce their book costs. In regards to used books there is a Midwest company that sells millions of used books to college bookstores around the country. They do not sell books direct to students. I tried to get access to their operation but they informed me that they owned hundreds of campus bookstores and that it would not be profitable to allow me to use their system.
After extensive research I discovered a method to sell books to my students at market price. The first time I tried my system I sold 92 books at an average price of 55 dollars. I beat the campus bookstore by at least 25 dollars per book. The sooner a student buys their textbooks the better price they will get. Even the system I set up has finite limits on used textbooks for my course and any other course. I decided to offer my website to anyone that would like to reduce the costs of their college texts.
The link to my site is http://www.textsforless.com.
Dr. Mike Copper has a PH.D in Computer Information Systems for Nova Southeastern University and an M.S. degree in Data Communications from Southern Mississippi. He is a retired Army Officer and a Vietnam Veteran.
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