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Find new and used textbooks for your college course, including reference books, study guides, key texts, academic journals, test prep books, and classic literature. AbeBooks offers thousands of textbooks at cheap prices - from biology to calculus and law - for students and academics everywhere. Remember to search by ISBN to find the exact edition that you need.

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Looking for cheap textbooks? Consider international editions - textbooks that have been published outside the US. These books are usually significantly cheaper than textbooks published in the US.
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ISBNs are useful when looking for specific books such as the latest edition of a book on your reading list. It stands for International Standard Book Number. This 10 or 13-digit number identifies the edition.

Famous for selling used books, AbeBooks has helped school, college and university students find and buy cheap textbooks online since 1996. Thousands of independent booksellers - many of them bricks and mortar bookstores - list their new and used textbooks for sale on our site.

There are books from all the major publishers including McGraw Hill and Pearson. The sellers ship the books straight to the buyers. Used copies include older editions and are usually available at the cheapest prices online - even as cheap as $1 plus shipping.

You can find history books, all the sciences, engineering and computer science, texts on mathematics, business, the fine arts and humanities, the social sciences, and much, much more. We have books for students, graduate and post-graduate, and faculty.

When looking for bargains, consider international editions - these are books that have been published outside the US, and they are usually significantly more affordable than textbooks published in the United States.

Remember to search by ISBN. If you don't know the ISBN, ask your course tutor for assistance. Textbooks are usually updated every two or three years. For instance, the latest edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was published March 2022, two years after the previous revised edition.