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Using Discounted Computer Books Bookstores
(slightly skeptical advice for students
on how to avoid "university textbooks rip-off")
Every programmer every system administrator, and especially a university computer
science student, needs a lot of books. This page is designed to help all three categories,
but might be especially useful for students as the cost of textbooks is often
staggering (see
rip-off 101):
Students
will spend an average of $898 per year on textbooks in 2003-04, based on surveys
of University of California (UC) students in the fall of 2003. This represents
almost 20 percent of the average tuition and fees for in-state students at public
four-year colleges nationwide. In contrast, a 1997 UC survey found that students
spent an average of $642 on textbooks in 1996-97.
For those who are barely can pay tuition, saving on textbooks can be an important
cost-saving measure.
As The Boston Globe reported in the article
Textbook costs are off the charts :
The findings in a federal report released yesterday
won't surprise anyone who has been to college in recent years: Textbook prices
have skyrocketed, closely tracking increases in tuition and fees.
The US Government Accountability Office study,
requested by Representative David Wu, an Oregon Republican, found that textbook
prices have increased 6 percent a year since the academic year 1987-88 -- twice
the general rate of inflation.
The average annual cost of textbooks for a student
in 2003-04 was $898 at a four-year college and $886 at a two-year college, the
report found. While overall prices have increased 72 percent since 1986, the
report said, college tuition and fees have increased
240 percent and textbooks 186 percent. The report echoes many
of the findings in a highly critical report issued last year by CALPIRG, a California
consumer research group.
Unfortunately a large part of the textbook market in the USA has all signs of
corrupted monopoly infested with cronyism and incompetence to the extent that Standard
Oil practices looks pretty benign in comparison. As the site
MakeTextbooksAffordable.com
states on its font page:
The report, entitled, “Rip-off
101: How the Current Practices of the Publishing Industry Drive up the Cost
of College Textbooks”, surveyed the most widely-taught books at colleges
and universities in California and Oregon and the faculty that teach those books.
The report found that even though students already pay $900 year for textbooks,
textbook publishers artificially inflate the price of textbooks by adding bells
and whistles to the current texts, and forcing cheaper used books off the market
by producing expensive new editions of textbooks that are barely different from
the previous edition. The report also found that most of the faculty members
surveyed in the report do not think many of these add-ons are useful and are
supportive of efforts to streamline textbook costs and extend the shelf life
of current textbook editions.
And some university professors are part of these scheme. Congressmen David Wu
site the opinion of the publisher in his
letter "If a student
is paying hundreds of dollars for a book, it's because the professor has ordered
the Cadillac edition". But that might be true only for CS where any professor
can easily find a cheaper high quality substitute from publishers like O'Reilly
(and students can do this too, this part of the Softpanorama site is actually about
such a selection). In other disciplines like mathematics professors have almost
no choice " . The cost of a common calculus textbook is over $100 in the USA. This
is a blatant, open rip-off. Here is another relevant quote from the Congressmen
David Wu's letter:
Ronald Miech, a math professor
at UCLA, countered that if he had choices in ordering textbooks, it would be
news to him. "I have never heard of a scaled-back version," he said.
Indeed, he contended that
he's often forced to order books that come bundled with workbooks and software
that he never uses. "I've tried the software," he said. "I don't like it and
I never use it. But we don't seem to have an option of buying the book without
it."
Congressmen David Wu letter also contains some useful recommendations. In the
meantime, enterprising students have many ways to cut the cost of buying textbooks.
Among them:
- Shop online.
The most popular book purchased from AbeBooks.com last year was a marketing
text that retails for $140, but sells online for $88 plus shipping, said Richard
Davies, a company spokesman. The detriment to buying online is that it
usually takes about a week to get the books. But if the campus bookstore is
going to charge 20% to 40% more for the same text, it may be worth the wait.
- Consider international
editions. U.S. publishers often sell their books overseas for a fraction
of the domestic retail price, said Merriah Fairchild, a higher education advocate
with the California Public Interest Research Group's student chapters. "Calculus:
Early Transcendentals," for instance, sells for $125 in the U.S.; $97 in Canada;
and $65 in Britain, Fairchild said. Sometimes the books have a slightly different
look, Davies added. They may have less color or a soft cover, for instance,
but the text is almost always the same.
- Buy used.
Students sometimes think they can't buy a used book if their professor is teaching
from a new edition. But the new editions are sometimes only slightly altered
versions of the old, Fairchild said. Ask the professor if you can use a previous
year's edition. If so, you may be able to save a bundle. Davies said that the
$140 marketing book that he cited sells for as little as $1 plus shipping when
it's a few years old and well used.
- Look for book
swaps. There are several book-swapping services on the Web, Fairchild
said. They're generally run by students and are for students on specific campuses.
One such site: http://www.CampusBookSwap.com
lists dozens of schools where students can search for a specific text,
or simply view a list of all the books other students have for sale on the site.
The prices are not always the lowest available, however. For example, an anthropology
text that sold for $94.95 new was listed at prices ranging from $50 to $74 on
the campus book-swap site; the same text sold used at Amazon.com for as little
as $16.99.
- Keep texts clean.
Students who don't write in or damage their books may be able to resell the
books at the end of the term for a reasonable price, Davies said. But the more
the student highlights, draws or inscribes a book, the less he's going to get
for it at resale. If you must write in a book, he suggests, use a pencil.
Here is another interesting letter that is related to this theme:
August 19, 2005
Congressman David Wu
1023 Longworth House Office
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Congressman Wu,
We support your fight for fair college textbook
pricing, especially your request that the Government Accountability Office investigate
the cost of college textbooks and the textbook publishing industry. The
GAO report [PDF] released
this week, and the media coverage it has generated, is bringing the issue the
attention it deserves.
The textbook has historically been produced by
a publisher who makes all the decisions about who and what gets published, and
when. They set the page count and decide how a book will be bound and bundled,
all of which helps determine (or inflate) the price. Everything is controlled
from the top down, unlike the production and sale of other goods.
O'Reilly Media is the largest independent publisher
of technology books. We work at empowering our customers and expanding the boundaries
of publishing by creating web-based user communities, sponsoring conferences
and publishing open content from our readers. Lately, Computer Science and Information
Technology instructors have been turning to us for up-to-the-minute course material
because their textbook needs are not being met through traditional academic
publishing channels.
So we developed
SafariU, a web-based co-publishing tool
that lets instructors build their own books out of the wealth of material we've
collected for them. SafariU users are free to search and select the content
they want from our huge database of top-tier technology resources, creating
bound textbooks and online syllabi tailored precisely to their teaching needs
and their students' budgetary constraints. And the SafariU Learning Object Exchange
gives instructors a forum for peer review and exchange of online syllabi and
textbooks. I'm enclosing an
interview with SafariU user Charles Anderson, professor at Western Oregon
University.
By transferring the publisher's authority to
the instructor, allowing content to be mixed and matched from multiple sources,
facilitating sharing in the academic community and changing the pricing model,
SafariU is turning textbook publishing on its head.
We'd like to learn more about your ongoing campaign
to make college textbooks affordable and how O'Reilly can help in that effort.
Kindest regards,
Timothy F. O'Reilly
Founder & CEO
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
But here one needs to see a bigger picture: low quality of recommended textbooks
makes it necessary buying additional textbooks.
There are several ways to save on university textbooks, and with some effort
you probably can save ~50% of the cover price, which is a nice saving especially
if the required textbook itself is junk or semi-junk with the price around $100
(like so many university textbooks can be classified).
For price comparison of computer books I would recommend to start
your search with the BookFinder4U
(has info about tax) or AAABookSearch
(it shows return policy and has some, potentially useful, information about coupons).
After that you can widen your search as the best price is often
can be found only in a single booksearching engine and it is difficult to predict
which one. Newcomer
Booksprice is also pretty impressive and can be recommended. AddALL
is good too and what is important it lists table of contents of the book
found.
Please notice that some bookstores charge taxes to residents of
particular states. BookkooB provides
valuable tax information about many bookstores along with prices.
Some notes:
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Recently I have several successful searches using
AAABookSearch. It is limited to
technical books, but like any specialized search engine it can (in certain cases)
provide a better price than other engines.
-
In experiments that I made
AddALL book search and price comparison was good in finding the minimum
price of Unix shell books; it also provides information about coupons (that
often make B&N much more competitive). That
makes it attractive search engine for computer books.
AAA BookSearch is also good and
couple of times was able to find the best price on new books.
See also
Yahoo! Book Search Services Price Comparisons for additional links to book price
comparison services sites.
But sometimes you can find a better deal then via price comparison
engine because of coupons and publisher website information. check Wall Mart, paradoxically
it sometimes has the best price on technical books.
For rare books one can try
Bublos.com.
Every programmer every system administrator, and especially a university
computer science student, needs a lot of books. This page is designed to help all
three categories, but might be especially useful for students as the cost
of textbooks is often staggering (see
rip-off 101).
-
Prices on new books fluctuate at least 20%. If you are
looking for a computer science textbook you usually can find a price on a new
book slightly better then in your university bookstore by checking major book
price comparison services listed above. Always use ISBN for searching:
otherwise a gain that you are anticipating may prove to be a loss.
-
Discounts on new textbooks are not great, but they do exist.
If your course is using O'Reilly, McMillan, Que, or Sams book you are
in much better position, and you can save 30% or more off the book price. It
makes sense to check the publisher WEB Page for specials and stores that have
huge discounts for this particular week. Many textbooks come "bundled,"
with shrink-wrapped software or additional instructional materials such as CD-ROMs
and workbooks. Students rarely have the option of buying the textbook "a la
carte" or without additional materials. You may try to buy unbundled edition
if such exists. More then half of
faculty
including myself "rarely" or "never" use the bundled materials in their courses.
-
Unless you really admire the author (Donald Knuth can be
an example) it does not make much sense to buy a new college textbook. Many
bookstores have very good prices on used college textbooks ! Most of those textbooks
are not that good anyway and it does not make sense to support the author or
greedy publishers ;-). You can usually save more then 50% on used textbooks,
sometimes 70% (university textbooks are often ridiculously overpriced and cost
close or even over $100). Publishers of textbooks often use new edition as a
dirty trick to extract more money from students (because it makes all the books
from the previous edition obsolete), but if changes are few you can save buying
previous edition and marking the differences or copying a dozen of changed pages
(that actually helps to concentrate on study of even dull subject, converting
you into some kind of detective exposing the author and publisher dirty tricks
;-).
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Many instructors does not follow a textbook that is recommended
for the course. In case of those "free agent" instructors previous edition
or even a different book can be more then adequate. If textbook is junk
it makes sense to buy a prev edition and additional two or three books: it might
make a difference between passing a course and failing it). Usually, what additional
book you need is clear after a couple of labs.
Amazon currently has a very good discount on O'Reilly books.
I also recommend to check
alldirect.com and Bookpool.
a1books.com, varsitybooks.com sometimes
has great prices too.
For O'Reilly books (in unlikely case Amazon or Bookpool have less
than 25% off) the second place to try is
DigitalGuru. It looks like they
usually have good discount. Digital Guru is especially attractive if you prefer
UPS shipping (UPS is faster. I also had a couple of books lost with USPS; you mileage
can vary).
Good luck !
Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov
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Amazon (very good
prices on new O'Reilly books, other usually 25%-30% off, Amazon marketplace
is very competitive and has wider selection of books then eBay.com and
half.com ) |
| 2 |
a1books.com (excellent prices for used book prices, mostly compertative
with amazon) |
| 3 |
Bookpool (generally
very good prices on new books) |
| 4 |
Alibris
Buy Used Books, Used Textbooks, Rare Books, Out-of-Print & New Books |
| 5 |
half.com
Selection is good and shipping on used books is lower then at Amazon
2.79 vs 3.50 at Amazon. If the same books is availble for the
same price half.com is cheaper then Amazon marketplace. |
| 6 |
ebay.com
(sometime you can find cheap books, but selection is usually very limited
and books often do not have exact ISBN -- buyer beware) |
| 7 |
B&N (usually is competitive
only with coupons, but has probably the largest selection of books) |
On April 12, 2002 I compared prices of new books for
the Softpanorama mini-bookshelf. The results
were:
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set (see also
Classic books/The Art of Computer
Programming) Amazon: $149.99, All Direct's Price:
$125.99
- The Mythical Man-Month
Amazon: $29.95. The best price
page1book.com $23.96
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Rapid Development Taming Wild Software Schedules
Amazon: $24.50.
The best price: Bookpool
$19.25
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The Elements of Programming Style (Bublos.com
search was used instead of Pricescan):
Alibris: 24.90 ,
Barnes & Noble $ 24.95. The best price ???
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Essential System Administration Amazon: $27.99; Digital Guru:
$27.97. The best price
alldirect.com $25.57.
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Learning the Korn Shell (2nd Edition) Amazon: $31.47; Digital Guru
$20.97; Bookpool: n/a The best price (1st edition):
bookcloseouts.com.
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A Practical Guide to Solaris Amazon: $49.99 ; Digital Guru: $44.95.
The best price
alldirect.com $37.76);
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Beginning Perl Amazon: $27.99; Digital Guru: $27.99; The best price
alldirect.com $25.59;
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Beginning XHTML Amazon: $27.99; Digital Guru: $27.99; The best price
alldirect.com $25.59.
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Beginning JavaScript Amazon: $27.99; Digital Guru: $27.99; The best price
alldirect.com $25.59.
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C by Example Amazon:
$24.99; Digital
Guru: $17.49;
The best price
bookcloseouts.com $9.99
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Mastering Turbo Assembler (AddALL
Bublos.com and search was used
instead of Pricescan):
eCampus $ 33.75
Booksamillion $ 45.00 The best price
bookcloseouts.com $20.99
On August 14, 2005 I repeated experiment 1 (compared prices
of new books for the Softpanorama mini-bookshelf)
using BookFinder4U.
An interesting result is that Walmark became very competitive with Amazon as for
new books. The second one is that Half.com often beats Amazon marketplace for used
books.
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set (see also
Classic books/The Art of Computer
Programming) The main surprise was that Wal-Mart $97.70 + 2.98 beats Amazon
$103.94+0 (the last column represents the list of states that charge tax for
mail orders from the store):
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In Stock |
97.70
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2.98
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100.68
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New |
AR CA CO GA MS NY OH UT |
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In Stock |
98.10
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3.49
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101.59
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New |
--- |
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Usually ships in 24
hours |
103.94
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0.00
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New |
ND WA |
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In Stock |
101.61
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3.69
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105.30
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New |
--- |
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The Mythical Man-Month Amazon: $23.09.
This book should be bought new.
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In Stock |
14.99
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2.79
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17.78
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New/Used |
PA |
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In Stock |
15.00
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3.49
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18.49
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Used |
--- |
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In Stock |
18.95
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3.49
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New/Used |
CA MI NV |
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In Stock |
20.00
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3.00
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23.00
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Used |
--- |
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In Stock |
19.64
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3.49
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23.13
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New |
--- |
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In Stock |
20.25
club price
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3.99
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Used |
NJ NV NY PA SC TN WI FL MA |
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In Stock |
21.70
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2.98
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24.68
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New |
AR CA CO GA MS NY OH UT |
-
Rapid Development Taming Wild Software Schedules
|
|
In Stock |
11.25
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3.50
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14.75
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Used |
--- |
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In Stock |
11.27
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3.50
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14.77
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Used |
--- |
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In Stock |
11.75
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3.29
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15.04
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Used |
NJ |
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In Stock |
13.00
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2.79
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15.79
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New/Used |
PA |
|
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In Stock |
12.45
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3.49
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New/Used |
CA MI NV |
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In Stock |
12.50
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3.49
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15.99
|
Used |
--- |
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|
In Stock |
16.99
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3.49
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20.48
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New |
--- |
-
The Elements of Programming Style only used is available:
|
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In Stock |
13.50
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3.49
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Used |
--- |
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In Stock |
14.43
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3.49
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New/Used |
CA MI NV |
|
|
In Stock |
14.48
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3.50
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17.98
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Used |
--- |
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|
In Stock |
20.00
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2.79
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22.79
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New/Used |
PA |
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Ships in 1 to
3 days |
19.95
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3.50
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|
Used |
--- |
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Essential System Administration This book
value considerably deteriorated since 2002 and it does not make sense to buy
it new.
|
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In Stock |
15.85
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3.29
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Used |
NJ |
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|
In Stock |
15.79
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3.49
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|
Used |
--- |
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In Stock |
15.85
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3.50
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Used |
--- |
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In Stock |
17.00
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2.79
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|
New/Used |
PA |
-
Learning the Korn Shell (2nd Edition)
The second edition proved to be weaker then the first and it does not make sense
to buy it new. :
|
|
In Stock |
15.85
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3.29
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|
Used |
NJ |
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|
In Stock |
15.79
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3.49
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|
Used |
--- |
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|
In Stock |
15.85
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3.50
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|
Used |
--- |
|
|
In Stock |
17.00
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2.79
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New/Used |
PA |
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Ships in 1 to
3 days |
26.50
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3.50
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|
Used |
--- |
|
|
In Stock |
27.48
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3.00
|
|
Used |
--- |
|
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Usually ships
within 2 business days |
27.48
|
3.50
|
|
New/Used |
--- |
|
|
In Stock |
28.22
|
3.49
|
|
New |
--- |
|
|
Check Site |
32.74
|
1.40
|
|
New |
UT |
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A Practical Guide to Solaris
-
Beginning Perl also does not make to buy
new anymore:
-
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Beginning JavaScript
|
|
In Stock |
2.90
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+ 2.79 =
|
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New/Used |
-
C by Example
|
|
In Stock |
4.37 +
|
3.49 =
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7.86
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-
Mastering
Turbo Assembler
-
|
|
In Stock |
5.00 +
|
2.79 =
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7.79
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In Stock |
5.75 +
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3.49 =
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9.24
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should be expected.
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try to use Google, Open directory, etc. to find a replacement link
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[Aug 15, 2005]
Beccary » Book Closeouts
Are you familiar with bookcrossing.com?
It’s free well, virtually, depends on if you want someone to send a book to
you and if they’re willing to pay to send it. If you don’t already have an account
there, you should get one. silent-lucidity is my username… you’re welcome to
browse my bookshelf (not sure if i’m allowed to include a link in comments so
i won’t… but if you search for my username you’ll get there ) and see
if there’s anything you want. the one’s marked “available” i still have in my
possession and can send to you. it’s mostly romance novels right now (because
i got tired of them laying around and me not reading them), but there’s a couple
just general fiction books in there too. And obviously, you can browse around
and find books from other users. Hope that helps.
[Aug 14, 2005] WeFindCheapBooks
An interesting newcomer that has very quick search. The result of
search are well organized has visual appeal (booksellers represented by nice icons)
and also provide innovative popup with the interesting information about the location
of the server. During my checks using "Softpanorama
Classic Books List" I noticed that prices for Amazon are not current and need
rechecking (probably cashed for speed). But generally the prices found were
one of the lowest available (within the shipping cost approximation limits).
[Aug 10, 2005] FetchBook -
New & Used Books - Find the Lowest Price An interesting newcomer. Searches are
pretty quick and the results are high quality.
[Apr 21, 2005] Books Price
- Multiple Book Price Comparison Another newcomer. Can help if you are trying
to buy several books simultaneously.
...is a free innovative service of finding the best
price on a purchase of several books together. This service is more useful than
the standard services which perform one book comparison at a time, and can save
more money when buying several books together. Since Architecture books can
be very expensive, I am sure that our services can be very important to you
visitors.
BookkooB - Compare book prices
in the US -- new price comparison service...
Interesting site the provides thumbnails along with found books. Sometimes
it is able to find bargains unavailable to competing services (try, for example,
Laura Lemay, or Mark Sobell and compare with a couple other servises).
Used Textbooks College Textbooks Used
College Text Books - Book Byte Textbook very good prices on colledge textbooks
!
bookcloseouts.com. Search for the list of discounted O'Reilly books, and the
list C++ books. some decent books (Delphi) can be found among $1.99 bargains.
BookCloseOuts.com Bargain Books - Book Store - Book Sale
DigitalGuru. Prices close to Amazon
but with cheaper shipping charges. Cheap UPS rate.
Book search and book price comparison
- AAABookSearch -- somebody send me this link. I tested it on Donald Knuth
Art of computer programming 3 volumes boxed set (Published On: October 1998 ISBN:
0201485419) and was pretty impressed. It does make sense to use this site. In this
search it has found a minumum price that was lower both Bublos and Pricescan by
$20 !. The site is slow.
Bublos.com Compare Real-Time Book Prices And
Buy Books Cheaper -- pretty interesting price comparison engine with links
to rare books
DigitalGuru periodically is offering up to 20% of all PH PTR tiles. Get 15% to
25% off Prentice Hall/PTR titles from Readme.doc!
Application
Compares Prices of Online Booksellers --March 26 1999
The question of who owns the title of the Earth's cheapest
bookstore may soon be answered, with Friday's launch of
"http://www.ClickTheButton.com">ClickTheButton.com, Inc.'s free application
that enables users to compare book prices of rival online bookstores.
The tool allows users to compare prices at
Amazon.com,
barnesandnoble.com and
Booksamillion.com.
With the click of a corner screen icon, bibliophiles can see
prices comparisons displayed in their active browser window. Dubbed The PriceSlicer,
the add-on can be downloaded
free and works with more than a quarter million book titles on sale at the three
book-tailers. The icon is installed on the Windows desktop next to the clock
in the lower right hand corner of the screen.
The Princeton, N.J.-based company said it does not have business
relationships with the booksellers. It also plans to support additional products
and e-commerce sites within the next few weeks.
[Jan.20.1999.] Trouble in the Amazon.com by Craig Bicknell, Wired News, There's
a new business model creeping into Web retailing that could spell trouble for Net
superstars like Amazon.com .
Well, here's the idea: If enough
people come to your Web site to buy whatever you're selling at a loss, you can
still make money by selling ad space on the site. Computer retailer Onsale unveiled
just such a plan Tuesday, dubbed Onsale atCost.
Buy.com, which competes
directly with Amazon in book, music, and video sales, has a similar business
blueprint. "It's still too early to tell whether this is a flash in the pan
or the beginning of a massive tidal wave," said Derek Brown, an analyst at Volpe
Brown Whelan. Read the full article:
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/business/story/17444.html?wnpg
ZDNet
Bookstore
[March 15, 2008 ]
POOR RICHARD'S
WEB SITE: Geek-Free, Commonsense Advice on Building a Low-Cost Web Site (first chapter)
[March 15, 2008 ]
The MIT Press
Yahoo! Book Search Services Price Comparisons
-
BookCloseOuts.com
closeouts up to 80% off
-
www.1bookstreet.com
-- bargain book up to 75% off.
-
**** HamiltonBook.com
-- more than 50% discounter; Shipping is only $3 for any number of books you
buy. They have very limited selection of computer books (in 1998 it used to
decent, but now rpobably few people buy them). Still periodically you can find
excellent deals in the
computer books section.
I use it several times and the service was great. Check it out. Recommended...
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Half.com
books -- a branch of eBay for new/used books similar to Amazon shops (50%
discount or more)
- Half-Price Computer Books
- Limited selection. 50% discount + free shipping in the USA. 75% discount
on some computer books. Half-decent selection of Perl books :-)
Half Price Computer Books is an independently-owned and
operated retail and Internet computer bookstore est. June 1, 1996. HPCB
now has three stores with the opening of their newest store in Vancouver
at Cambie and W 8th. The other stores are in Richmond, BC., just southwest
of Vancouver, and in Burnaby, east of Vancouver. We stock over 20,000 books
per location and are always growing. Selling only computer books, we can
specialize our knowledge in this industry and cater more specifically to
the needs of computer users. All of our titles sell for 50% off of the listed
retail price, with some books at further-reduced prices.
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Bargain Computer Books' Discount Computer Bookstore Product Page --
50% discounter, substantial selection
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