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Here you can find our recommendations of exciting fiction and non-fiction books. Read a collection of articles about top books of different categories and news related to the textbook market.

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News on Reselling Ebooks in 2021

Ebooks… they appeared rather recently but nowadays they play an important role in our life by giving us a cheaper, space-saving and weight-free option to enjoy their contents. When you purchase your eBook, you read it on your device and you finish it, your eBook stays unused since after. So what can you do about it? The first idea is to try to sell it to someone else. When you buy an eBook it means that you are purchasing the licence to this eBook but not the actual book. The copyright law on licensing can be very misleading: some terms can be very strict whereas other terms can be up to the licence creator.

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Top 10 Books for Best Textbook Buyback

Here at BooksRun, we make sure that books become reusable since it helps save money for students and reduce deforestation on our planet. We would like to show you how we make reading affordable to everyone by carefully monitoring our competitors’ prices and setting some of the best textbook buyback prices on the market.

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Are Online Textbooks Making Education More Affordable?

It is undeniable that college costs have risen exponentially throughout the years, with U.S. News noting that this is due to soaring tuition prices. Based on an annual survey obtained by U.S. News, the average cost of tuition and fees for the last school year was $34,699 at private colleges, $21,632 for out-of-state students at state schools, and $9,528 for state residents at public colleges.

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A Brief History of the College Textbook Pricing Racket

It’s a known fact that for the past decades, the price of textbooks has increased at a drastic rate. New editions of textbooks are made every year, rendering the old ones, in most cases, useless, and students have no choice but to purchase them. Thanks to the Internet, students have been able to find a way to cope with the increasing price. A helpful factor is the emergence of websites like BooksRun and bookstores that give students the opportunity to rent textbooks for a given period of time. They can also search through the web for used textbooks or ebooks which come at prices way cheaper than the original new or paper form.

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How College Students Battled Textbook Publishers

The cost of textbooks for college students has skyrocketed over the past decade. A new economics textbook could now cost you as much as $300, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a known fact that students spend an average of $600 to even $1000 on textbooks per year. However, this also depends on which university you attend, whether private or state. But despite the fact that the cost of textbooks has been increasing, the same can’t be said for the amount students spend on them. How could this be so? Well, when prices go up, people tend to find ways to avoid paying such high prices. And it appears that students have also found a way. 

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Why Do Textbooks Cost So Much?

Ever wonder why textbooks tend to be unreasonably expensive even for the average college student? Well, you’re not the only one. This is one of the most current problems we college students face. Various surveys have been taken by American universities to estimate how much college students spend on textbooks, and this ranges from $600 to even $1000 depending on which university you attend (private university or community college). Also taking into consideration the expenses for school supplies and material, this could easily top over $1000. Yes, that’s a pretty scary number. So, why do textbooks cost so much? We did some research and here are a few reasons why:

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No Need in Books—Cash Them out: Top 9 Textbooks for Buyback

Once the semester is over, students start to look forward to relaxing days at home without ever-lasting classes and heavy home assignments to complete for credits. However, those sunny days may be aggravated only by a glimpse of heavy loads of textbooks that need sorting out before going on deserved holidays. The resolution may well be quite simple and, what is more important, quite useful: no need for books anymore—simply cash them out!

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Top-14 Counterfeit Textbooks

As a company, we care a lot about making the best possible experience for each and every our customer that sells (or buys/rents) textbooks. We aspire to offer the best quotes for the textbooks we receive, but, unfortunately, there are some that cannot be accepted for buyback: counterfeit ones. The thing is that these items are produced illegally, and even if they have high quality and practically the same content, they lose their value in any self-respecting marketplace.

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Top Medical Textbooks Buyback in 2021

If you attend a medical school, you should definitely know that textbooks tend to be really expensive, not to mention the fact that the tuition fee and the study duration exceed all expectations.  In order not to end up spending a fortune, you can buy used textbooks or sell them back after the semester (while renting is also an option).

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