College textbooks on the cheap

College is expensive enough without paying full price for textbooks. Here’s how to get textbooks on the cheap, up to 90% off:

As its name implies, Campus Book Rentals rents books.  Right now they are offering a $29.99 special on books for the fall semester.  Search by ISBN, author, title or keyword.  You can also click the link to enter to win a Textbook Scholarship (No purchase required)

Two other online textbook rental companies offer free shipping when you sell books back.  You can search by ISBN, author, title or keyword at Valorebooks  and Chegg.

A surprising number of academic textbooks are available as e-books, for e-readers including Kindle and Nook. 

Get 20% off science, architecture, chemistry and education ebooks for the fall semester from ebooks.com

Or, rent a digital version of your textbook from Packback for $3-$5 a day, which sounds cheap until you add up the number of days in a semester.