First of all, take care of your textbooks during each semester. If you can live with leaving your notes on sticky notes inside, instead of highlighting and writing inside textbooks, then do that. If you’re like me and you lose all your sticky notes and can’t enjoy your notes without highlighting important information, then go ahead and do that.

Second, keep your textbooks clean; meaning don’t eat while studying, don’t drink while studying, and just basically don’t do anything while studying. Studying means studying, nothing else.

Also, try to keep any softwares that came with your books clean and free from scratches.

Fourth, the best time to sell your textbooks is a few weeks before each semester starts. Actually the best time is the week before each semester starts, but that time is hectic for everyone. There would be a lot of pressure of needing to get the books to the post office ASAP and having them mailed a more expensive way, etc, ect. So a couple or three weeks before school starts is a good time to sell in my opinion.

The first thing you should do is go this website: www.campusi.com. This site will compare the prices of your textbook in each online bookstore they have available in their list. You would just enter the ISBN# which is usually found on the back of books. After you enter the ISBN#, a list of bookstores with prices of books they have on sale.

You should look at the site that is willing to pay the most money and go sign up for it and post your book for sale. I usually use ebay.com, half.com, and amazon.com to sell my books.

When you list your books for sale, make sure you give buyers two options of shipment. One option would be having the book shipped by media mail, which can take from 2-9 days and the other option is priority mail, which usually takes 2-3 days. Just note if you’re shipping to a far address using priority mail, you’re better off using flat rate envelop, then regular envelop. It’s usually cheaper depending on the weight of the book.

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