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We love books at BooksRun! And we care about making textbooks affordable for others! We love sharing as well! Every day our data scientists monitor textbooks’ prices on the market to make sure we continue offering the lowest prices on used textbooks for you, our dear readers! Below you will find a list of the top 10 purchased or rented textbooks in this season:

Read more > “Top 10 Purchase and Rent Textbooks”

While fiction fascinates and entertains, non-fiction is considered extremely dull by many readers. Well, understandably, it’s never about the suspense or romance. Yet, a good non-fiction book can be very engaging; you just need to pick the right book. In this article, we’ll take a look at non-fiction and the best non-fiction books of all time. Let’s see the nonfiction best sellers, the books that illuminate and inspire in the non-fiction range.

Read more > “5 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time”

If you are pursuing a college degree, you can bet that in any semester, you will have to do a writing paper at some point! If you find out about a “10-page paper” and it makes you scared, then you should know that you are not alone. We have all been there, and we have all felt the same! It is not an easy task to write on a chosen topic in a constructive manner avoiding the fluff and taking into account numerous English grammar and punctuation rules. If you worry about forgotten vocabulary words or whether to put a semicolon or not, then we can suggest an idea. Meet the list of 7 writing reference books and grammar guides that will help you write.

Read more > “7 Best Writing Reference Books and Grammar Guides”

BooksRun aims to save student money by helping them purchase used textbooks and giving a chance to sell them back later. We carefully monitor the most popular college textbooks so that our students start their textbook search as early as possible and have their books at hand before the start of the semester. With millions of books in stock, it has never been an easy task to establish best-selling college books! Nevertheless, we always try to do it to reveal the books that might be hard to find each year, so make sure you start your book-hunting process ASAP!

Read more > “10 Best-Selling College Textbooks”

If you are a student and you had to purchase expensive textbooks in the past, then most likely you will know how daunting it is to sell your textbooks after you have finished your course! Despite certain inconveniences, you should always remember that selling your used textbooks will declutter your space at home and will let you earn some extra cash along the way! Below is the information that you need to consider when you are thinking about where to sell your old textbooks online.

Read more > “7 Important Tips for Selling Used Textbooks Online”

As a student, you are strongly aware of the high costs of textbooks. Moreover, you might have noticed that every time you purchase a textbook, you receive a pitch from the publisher to upgrade for some extra add-ons without which, according to the publisher, you will struggle to understand the course and excel in your studies. This has become a trend for the tech industry either: when you buy new software, you receive advice immediately on what you can purchase next. It can be a tech-support subscription (because we live at the era of services), a wider variety of content, customized- templates, etc. Nowadays there are always ways to make us, general customers, pay more and have extra fees… In the publishing industry, this has turned out into a profitable business model when students buying textbooks need to have the code for practicing additional tests associated with these books. Therefore, it puts extra worries on students if they are trying to save money by purchasing second-hand textbooks. Below we will try to demystify certain beliefs about these access codes for students.

Read more > “Textbooks’ Access Codes”

Numerous times we’ve covered stories about reselling, donating, or recycling used textbooks. But do you know where do these books come from? What are educational publishing companies? What are the top publishing companies? We decided to tell you about the biggest textbook publishers who provide textbooks for university courses all over the country: they are responsible for deciding on the structure of the course, creating the layout of the textbooks, and for distributing them. In total, there are 310 “General Education” publishers in the USA. Among them, there are the 5 most prominent textbook companies that stand out in the publishing industry. Below we will cover the textbook publishers list in more detail.

Read more > “The Biggest Textbook Publishers: Top Publishing Companies”

As a regular student most of the time you are in the position when you need money to cover up your running costs at the college or to save up some money for vacation traveling. One of the simplest options to earn extra cash available to you as a student is to sell your textbooks to marketplaces and buyback companies. Now it is quite a popular service and a lot of students have heard about it.

Read more > “Best Time To Sell Your Textbooks”

Bill Gates is the key figure of the 20th century whose phenomenon has been studied numerous times and even today his biography provides a source of inspiration for a contemporary generation of youngsters who dream of achieving success one day. He is a textbook genius who was allowed to pursue his computer interests instead of coming to school classes. At the age of 15, he built a software program on the General Electric Machine to optimize road traffic and sold it for $20,000! Here we will have a look at Bill Gates’ early life and will see how it led subsequently to a road of success and worldwide celebrity status. What can we learn from Bill Gates’ story? We will see that despite all this recognition, he has not lost his interest in people and he has even rediscovered himself to the world as one of the most generous charity donors in history.

Read more > “What Can We Learn from Bill Gates’ Story”

As you know, BooksRun is very concerned about what is happening with our planet. Every little thing that helps to protect the natural habitats of rare species of flora and fauna, reduce the carbon footprint, or recycle materials back into a new product’s life cycle makes us happy and proud! Our sustainability beliefs are reflected in our daily work: we advocate for reusing textbooks in order to minimize the effect of deforestation and we also support OneTree Planted Charity to multiply the number of trees planted every day. Let’s go green together with BooksRun Loyalty Program! If you want to contribute to the mentioned below trends of adopting sustainable policies and lifestyles, you can check out these sustainable packaging solutions! They’re so easy to implement but incredibly helpful in the long run.

Below we summarized recent good news for all the sustainable enthusiasts out there. Read more > “Update on Sustainability in the World”