Selling books back to college bookstore

[tinnean]

It's been a long time since college, and the books were a good deal cheaper back then. (although it didn't feel that way at the time.) I've googled this, and it seems all the sites are for online selling and require an ISBN number. I've also looked up the cost of buying the books from the bookstore with no luck

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[longrun2]

It has probably got worse but the *big* difference is the absence of competition. Blackwell's had a competitor less than 100 yards away and a few colleges, like mine, had student-run book exchanges, so it took a commercial margin instead of a monopolist's margin.
Another poster suggests that even in the USA where there are competing bookstores students get treated better.
"$75 brand new, (and did we scream over that!)" I shouldn't have needed to scream because my professors would have blacklisted any book that cost $75 (or anywhere near it). I cannot remember the price of the books Professor Coulson wrote but I'm sure they were less than $10 each (and those students who arrived at 8.55 for one of his 9 am lectures spent the next hour sitting on the floor). I had a scholarship of £60 pa and from that (plus what was left over from a school prize of £40 after I had bought an interesting and impressive non-maths book as a reward/for the prize bookplate) I bought *all* my first-year books, treating myself to new copies of the more interesting ones. Other guys bought as many as possible second-hand and spent £50 or less.
You could feature a grumpy old great-uncle or sympathetic bus-driver saying that it's not fair on the younger generation.

[tinnean]

It's no wonder why kids graduate college with heavy student loans weighing them down. Even if you try for a Pell Grant, your family income has to be $50k or less, and how does a family of 4 (or 5 or more) survive on that?

You could feature a grumpy old great-uncle or sympathetic bus-driver saying that it's not fair on the younger generation.

Granddad is ticked because my MC decided to study interior design, and he's estranged from his father. But there is someone who might make that comment. He might also take the MC to task for not bringing the books to him to sell online. *g*

Thank you so much!