Yesterday I piled all my old textbooks (well not the ones from college!) into my backpack and lugged them with me all day so that I could bring them to the University book store. They offer a buy-back program and I figured there were a few (read: most of them) textbooks that I would never crack open ever again.
I was thinking I would get some half decent coin back for these textbooks but out of ten of them, I only sold two of them; one sold for $22 and the other sold for a whopping $2! There as also another book that would have sold for $1 but I enjoyed it so I figured the least I could do is keep it. The rest of them were not wanted as a buy-back (as in there was already a newer version available or people simply didn’t want them).
I must admit that I was disappointed that they couldn’t take most of my textbook and I had to haul them back home with me. My next step will be to post them up on the University website in case a student wants an old version of a textbook.
Mental Note: If you want to sell your textbooks, it’s best to sell it as soon as you are done with it, otherwise there may be a new version that is released in the meantime.