How to Save Money on Your College Textbooks by Using 'Web 2.0' Internet Technologies

I am not sure about everyone else, but I got tired of spending a good portion of the money I earned in a summer job on college textbooks. Freshmen year I spent well over $600 on my books per semester. I soon learned what monopolies the on-campus bookstore has on the textbook market. I learned from some upper classmen that you can your books at a reasonable price if you buy them on online. It became obvious to me that the prices of books on-line were much cheaper then they were at my on-campus bookstore. However, I was a little overwhelmed as to where the best place to buy my books online was because there are a lot of on-line bookstores. What I soon discovered that using a book price comparison search engine eliminated this confusion.

What a book price comparison search engine does is crawl the major on-line bookstores like Amazon.com, Half.com Barnes & Noble, AbeBooks.com, Alibris.com, etc. and tells you where the lowest price book is. This is a great thing because you do not need to go each bookstore individually and there are large price differences amongst the on-line bookstores. Using a comparison engine saved me a lot of money on my books. The one I recommend to everyone is SmartBookFinder.com, http://www.smartbookfinder.com. It is one of the major book price comparison websites used for finding discount books. They are a new Web 2.0 book price comparison search engine I personally like to use now. When I was in college I used AddAll.com, which is one of the original book price comparison websites. By using their website my bill went from around $600 a semester to $200! Most college students do not know about these services readily available on the Internet because usually they go directly to the bookstore without comparing prices.