TextbookCrook.com - Where Students Trade Textbooks

A site that it is aimed at college students, Textbook Crook has the objective of putting the bookstore middleman out of the picture when it comes to selling used books. A fact is a fact: if you buy a book for $120 at the campus bookstore that you use for a semester only and then you want to sell it back to that very same bookstore, chances are they will offer you something like $20 for buying it back.

They might subsequently sell it for something like $80. The idea, then, is to let students avoid that and charge a price ensuring the seller will receive more than on a traditional buyback, and the new owner have it for less than the price the bookstore would charge.



Listing an item on the site costs $1. The books that are listed can be browsed for free by everybody, and the site makes it possible for the seller and the buyer to meet on campus at a convenient time in order to carry the transaction to completion. That is, the system also dispenses with shipping and handling fees of any kind.