Best way to sell old university textbooks?

I would just sell them online. That is obviously where you’re going to make the most money from selling. Try and check out places like eCampus.com where you can get some great deals on any kind of textbooks you have.

Bateman’s Bay Library sounds like a better deal – ACT public libraries won’t touch donations. They just give everything to Lifeline. They have no staff to catalogue them and they don’t want anything more than 5 years old anyway (and that includes the history books… 🙂 )

watto23 said :

They may be current in what info the textbooks contain, but if they are not the current versions used for any courses then you’d be lucky to sell them for anything. Lifeline accepts these kinds of books as a donation also.
They really won’t be worth the money and time spent trying to sell them IMO.

While I left university 10 years ago i’ve also bought texts that are current and relevant that were needed for self education for my job. Those I will try to sell on ebay or textbook exchange.

as for the rest…

i’ve decided i’ll donate them to a public library. but not in Canberra – since people have access to material readily. I’ll donate them to probably the Batemens Bay public library when I am down there next week.

They may be current in what info the textbooks contain, but if they are not the current versions used for any courses then you’d be lucky to sell them for anything. Lifeline accepts these kinds of books as a donation also.
They really won’t be worth the money and time spent trying to sell them IMO.

I’d be interested in the IT books. If you can provide us a link to the textbook exchange page or add the book listing to a google speadsheet and post it up here. If you are a member of OCAU, put it up on the forums there and see what response you get

krats said :

Donate Them To Library.

Sorry, unless they’re classics, the uni libraries won’t want them – their user base need the current edition of textbooks, not older editions, and if they already have copies which aren’t heavily used they don’t have the shelf space to take on more. (Processing donations is actually much more expensive than you’d think.) They’ll already have a lot of relevant old texts in marketing, IT and economics.

Thanks to everyone who has responded. I’ll give textbook exchange a go. If I don’t get very far with them, then the days before I leave I will donate to the local libraries.

Cheers

screaming banshee said :

I’ve never understood people that sell off their reference texts for far less than they paid. For the few dollars they are worth why don’t you keep them both for future reference as the start of your reference library and for the history they hold.

maybe you didn’t read my original post. I’m moving overseas. I can’t take 60kg of books with me. I held onto them for a long time as reference books. Sadly people move around the world and we can’t take everything with us as much as I would hope to.

screaming banshee said :

I’ve never understood people that sell off their reference texts for far less than they paid. For the few dollars they are worth why don’t you keep them both for future reference as the start of your reference library and for the history they hold.

Depends how “advanced” they are to be honest. First year (and some second year stuff) is basically a hard copy wikipedia of your subject area, and would have no purpose in the work force.

poetix said :

Classified said :

How about considering the environment? Burn them!

Sorry, I don’t follow your logic here…

Sorry, just a bit of shoit stirrage…