Beware of textbooks-now and bookbyte (Half.com)
Filed in Abstract Discovery, Discoveries on Nov.23, 2008
Buying used books online, at convenient outlets like eBay’s Half.com, is an relief to college students everywhere who are already cash-strapped thanks to ever-increasing tuition, fees, and abusive, self-perpetuating, overpriced textbook stores (I rant on textbook stores on an older blog). However, a student wishing to purchase books online must be spry. A required text [...]
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