Psst Get Your Professor’s Textbook

College semesters are about to get into full swing for many of you, so we’re here to help you with another strategy to lower your textbook costs.  We’ve already been over some places you can purchase textbooks on a strict budget but here is another great strategy for finding cheap textbooks that you often aren’t told.  When you search for your textbook look for the instructor edition, it takes a little extra legwork but can be worth the effort.  You will get a nearly identical book the only differences will be a different ISBN number, and in many cases extra footnotes that will highlight what a good test question will be.  This can help you focus your attention come study time for your big exam.

One of the easiest resources to find related books to your text book or simply search instructor edition is to use the Amazon search, sometimes Amazon will cough up a related ISBN number all on its own.  If Amazon doesn’t help you find the instruction edition and if you know the publisher of your required textbook you should also give the publisher website a visit.  They will often list the instructor edition ISBN numbers in the instructor part of their websites.

Check out our affiliates page for great places to get started for your book search, it’s a win-win you help support us and save yourselves money.  We also give a little rundown of the pros and cons of each bookstore in this article.

It sounds like a lot of work, but it is worth all of the effort if you can cut your cost of books each semester by hundreds of dollars maybe even thousands if you are in medical or legal education pathways.  As always bookmark us and send your friends and family our way to help them out.

Another great resource for college students is one free year of Amazon Prime so you get free 2 day shipping on most items!

Also don’t forget to check out Amazon’s Back to School page for extra savings!