Textbookexchange is the best website to buy and sell 2nd hand textbooks in Australia. It is a free service from Student Services Australia and a group of leading student organisations nationwide.
It is estimated that at least 30% of students do not buy all of their “required reading” textbooks. The primary reason is lack of funds. Textbookexchange is designed to help students either recoup past expenditure so they can afford new textbooks, or lower the cost of books they cannot currently afford to buy new.
Use it to sell last semester’s used textbooks into cash and buy this semesters required textbooks without paying new text book prices.
The Textbookexchange site puts textbook buyers and sellers in touch with each other. Textbookexchange doesn’t handle books, money or take any commission – it’s 100% free.
Here’s how it works: Sellers list their books. Buyers search for books.
When a buyer finds a book on Textbookexchange, they contact the seller from the site (by email, sms or phone), The seller responds and you organise to transact. Easy!
You choose one or more ways to transact;
- meet on campus,
- meet in the CBD,
- Australia Post COD
Alternatively if you’re a buyer of textbooks pay by direct bank depost and save on postage because Australia Post COD costs a lot of money. If you choose to do this make sure you get the text book sellers full name, mobile phone number and home address so you have recourse if the book doesnt get posted to you.
If you can’t find the textbook you need on Textbookexchange, have a look at the Australian discount online bookstore Seekbooks
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http://www.oneandten.com.au is an alternative text book selling site
If you’re lucky enough to be in the University of Western Australia. You can use http://unimarket.yeeouch.com/perth It’s the official textbook search engine of the guild.
Some other Australian 2nd hand textbook websites are:
Australia Wide
Queensland
Victoria
NSW
NT
WA
If your TAFE or University 2nd hand bookshop isn’t mentioned please add it to the list by making a comment below
http://www.textbooksoz.com is an Australian sute selling Text Books for Australian Secondary & Primary School Students. The site has both 2nd hand and new textbooks
Another new site where you can sell and buy books (as well as CDs, DVDs and Records).
No listing fee at the moment and your listing stays there until you remove it.
Also you can list your wants and get e-mailled when someone lists it for sale.
http://ozbooks.org
Another website that sells books at a pretty cheap price is Book Depository UK
At the moment they are offering free delivery worldwide
Quick note: textbookexchange is completely 100% free – unlike some of the other sites listed.
It is now the biggest student-to-student textbook site in the world (and its still just for Australian students).
Under the studentvip.com.au portal, textbookexchange now also includes free access to “Discount Detective” and “Student Grants”.
Go http://www.textbookexchange.com.au!
cheers
andrew
In an interesting move Facebook has added a new marketplace for buying and selling books. Since so many high school and uni students are members of Facebook it may be worth checking out for selling your own textbooks or buying ones you need
Why not buy BRAND NEW textbooks? I got 2 textbooks from a online bookstore and save me $200+. All the discount textbooks are BRAND NEW and most of them are 50% off discount books. That’s great. See if the discount bookstore are useful for you
You can also try the Mighty Tiny Book Shop.
You can list as many items as you want, for as long as you want, with photos, without sign-up, online, free.
There is also a free online service for selling/buying books at Macquarie Uni in NSW – mqbooks.org