VOIP cuts student phone bills

Textbooks, Tuition, Telephone are all cost excessive for college students. Is your room wired with high-speed access? Consider using VOIP or commonly called Internet Phone to slice your phone bill and provide cutting edge features. I have used VOIP since Sept 05 and it is great. For $14.95 I get unlimited incoming calls, 500 outgoing minutes (for another $5 I could get unlimited outbound), call waiting, caller ID, voice mail w/ email copies, dual ring (my VOIP # also rings my cell!), online reports and tools and a lot more. I also get unlimited in-network calling. A good overview of the leading providers is at www.Internet-Phone-VOIP.com including a VOIP services comparison chart.

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Wikibooks - a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit

Open-source textbooks on any topic, in any language, available to anyone, anywhere, for free. Wikibooks,set up on July 10, 2003 is a project of the Wikimedia, the folks who brought you Wikipedia. Consisting of over 11,000 books, the textbooks on the site are all released under an open content license; that means that they are free forever. No one can keep you from using these materials, modifying them or distributing them. Also, the license guarantees that any works that are derived from these materials will be similarly free to modify and distribute, forever. Free textbooks and more info can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org

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Textbook Buyback

College textbook buyback or sell textbooks at auction - make the best choice.

One way to keep your total textbook costs low is to get the most for your used textbooks at the end of the course. Buyback college textbook sites are one choice but college textbook stores buyback at are a percent of market value. Textbook sell back or textbook buybacks are faster than selling textbooks at auction sites. College textbook buyback is a quick transaction vs the time to sell college textbooks yourself. If you sell your textbook yourself you may get full market value. So, sell college textbook online yourself or use textbook buybacks? I recommend using our Quick Compare book price finder to find the current used textbook market value in real-time. This way you will know the differance between selling yourself or unloading by textbook buyback.
One you decise which method to use here are my top picks:

Sell Your Used College Textbooks - Fixed Price
and Auctions

Half.com, eBay, GetCheapBooks, Amazon.com, and StudentListing.

College Textbook Buyback

eCampus, Barnes & Noble, Booksvalue.com, and Bookbyte


View a complete textbook sellers masterlist

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Reducing College Textbook Costs

Buy Used College Textbooks. - No shocker here:
80% of textbooks sold each year are used, but here are some important
details:

• Make sure the book you are looking at is the correct
  version or release by using the ISBN to verify. Check out the campus
  bookstore; this will establish your local maximum price,
  plus you can get the ISBN confirmed.
  
• Ask your professor if an older version is OK. It could
  be as much as half the price. Don't go back more than one edition.
  Use the index to find the information in your previous edition when
  the instructors tell the students with the new (expensive) book what
  pages to read.
  
• There is no suggested retail price on used discount textbooks,
  so shop around. However, used textbook inventories change quickly,
  so use a real-time quick comparison tool like Quick
  Compare to locate your discount college textbooks.
  
• Buying from individuals on marketplaces like Amazon
  Marketplace and Half.com may be
  cheapest but look at the location of the seller and shipping methods
  offered. Media Mail can take two weeks from coast to coast. Follow
  up after the purchase to make sure it has been shipped.
  
• Check the bulletin boards at school for used book ads
  or buy used books from students in the classes ahead of you. Watch
  for or organize textbook swap parties.
  
• Consider the resale value as you use the book. Textbook
  care affects its condition and resale value. Reduce overall cost
  by maximizing resale value.
  
• Put you book on the market ASAP after finals. Don't
  jump the gun and list too early; most services require you to ship
  the book within two days of its sale.
  
• Get the best price by selling it yourself. I
  have found the best demand (quickest sales) from Amazon and Half.com but don't overlook the convenience and speed of selling it to a online book seller like eCampus (a little cash in hand could be better than unsold inventory online) See our textbook buyback page for more choices.

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Textbooks with free shipping

Many textbook sellers offer free standard shipping with minimum purchase requirements. We have reviewed the stores in our cheap textbook sellers masterlist and prepaired this quick summery of the free textbook shipping offers available.
Alibris Textbooks - Get FREE Textbook Shipping when you spend $49 or more.
Amazon Textbooks - Get FREE Textbook Shipping with a puchase over $25.
Barnes & Noble Textbooks - Get FREE Textbook Shipping with a puchase over $25.
Barrister Books - Get FREE Textbook Shipping when you spend $49 or more.
BooksAMillion Textbooks - Get FREE Textbook Shipping with a puchase over $25.
Buy.com Textbooks - Get FREE Textbook Shipping with a puchase over $25.
eCampus Textbooks - Get FREE Textbook Shipping when you spend $49 or more.
Powell's Textbooks - Get FREE Textbook Shipping when you spend $50 or more.
TextbookX Textbooks - Get FREE Textbook Shipping when you spend $49 or more.
Reminder - standard free shipping is normaly by Media Mail which can take up to two weeks.

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Alibris Coupons for Textbooks

Alibris has just released a set of coupons help with the pain of back to school textbook buying.

Offer	Code	Expiration
$5 off $50+	SAVEINET5	09/16/2005
$10 off $100+	SAVEINET10	09/16/2005

Alibris Textbooks - Your connection to thousands of used college textbooks.

B & N Summer Sale

B & N Summer Sale Save up to 80% online during their Summer Clearance Sale!

Barns and Noble has just reduced prices on thousands of great titles- many as low as $1.99! Plus, must-have DVD's start at $3.99. Sale ends August 18th, so check out the Summer Clearance Sale now for the best selection!

Direct link to the Barns & Noble Summer Sale page.

Bob

Alibris Textbook Coupon

Alibris has just released a set of coupons to kick off your summer with savings.

Offer	Code	Expiration
$1 off any order	RECESS1	06/30/2005
$3 off $30+	RECESS3	06/30/2005
$5 off $50+	RECESS5	06/30/2005
$10 off $100+	RECESS10	06/30/2005

Alibris Textbooks - Your connection to thousands of independent book sellers. Over 30 million used, new and hard-to-find books.

Half.com Set to get HOT for used textbooks

Last December I reported on the resurrection of Half.com. Half.com has long been one of everyone's favorite sources for used textbooks. Both used textbook buyers and sellers found it the best site to market used textbooks. Then eBay bought Half.com and last year announced they were closing the service after textbook season was over for fall 04. eBay tried to get everyone to list their used textbooks on eBay but Half would not die. Fall 04 saw record sales at Half.com. Next came the re-start of their referral program in January where they paid website owners for sending buyers. Now Half has announced a update to the referral program. In the past they paid only when web sites sent a new visitor that registered for the first time but paid nothing for sending return users. This resulted in very little referral traffic. The new program pays referral fees for every sale for any user! This will result in more sites promoting Half.com for used textbooks. This will make Half THE PLACE to post used textbooks for sell! Half has been a favorite and it may well become the used textbook powerhouse of the net.

Amazon offers new fast shipping service

Get your textbooks faster - Amazon has added a service called Amazon Prime.

• Free Two-Day Shipping on over a million in-stock items sold by Amazon.com
• Overnight Shipping for only $3.99 per item—order as late as 6:30 PM ET
• No minimum purchase required
• No need to consolidate items to save on shipping

They charge $79 per year for this "All you can eat express shipping". More Information
If you buy a lot of textbooks through Amazon (Amazon textbooks, not Marketplace Textbooks) this program is an inexpensive way for fast shipping.