50 Sites to Help You Save Money on Nursing Books

If you are extending your education in your climb up the nursing career ladder, you know that you need to save every penny possible for both living expenses and for paying off that school bill. Textbooks easily can become a huge expense, especially when you discover that you have many outdated versions on hand after you complete your degree. The following 50 sites will help you save money on your textbooks — in fact, some list free books and other sources rent textbooks — and they may also offer a chance for you to resell that textbook when your class ends.

Specifically for Nurses

1. Buy All Books: This site claims to have the best prices for medical books, textbooks, scientific, technical and professional books, PDA and software.
2. Dirt Cheap Books 4U: Find textbooks at this site, which focuses on science, medical and technical resources.
3. Elsevier: This link leads directly to the Nursing category at this online bookstore, a market leader in the publication and dissemination of literature covering the broad spectrum of scientific endeavors.
4. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: This company offers specialized publications and software for physicians, nurses, students and specialized clinicians.
5. Minority Nurse: Use this search engine to find books by ISBN. The results will reveal selections across the Web.
6. NCBI Bookshelf: If you need biomedical references, these books can be browsed for free online, thanks to the National Institute for Health.
7. Nursing Books: Search for nursing books and textbooks at this site geared toward nurses. Read reviews and ratings, find the best price.
8. NursingTextbookShop: Use this search engine to find books across the Internet at up to 30 percent off.
9. Online Medical Textbooks: Use this search site to find eBooks and other materials offered for free from various resources.
10. Real Nurse Books: You can find a wide variety of books for nurses in both the U.S. and the UK at this site.
11. Springer Publishing Company: This bookseller focuses on healthcare, and this link leads directly to their books for nurses.

Book Sites

12. AbeBooks: This resource supplies textbooks at deep discounts compared to campus bookstores.
13. Amazon: This nursing section of the Amazon site carries tons of textbooks, often at highly discount prices through third-party vendors and individuals.
14. Alibris: This link leads to Alibris’ textbook section, where you can search by ISBN.
15. AOL Shopping: Nursing textbooks available here, at high discount prices.
16. Barnes & Noble: This link leads to B&N’s textbooks, where you can find many books at discounted prices.
17. Better World Books: You can find nursing textbooks here, sometimes at discounted and competitive prices. Use ISBN to search both new and used book selections.
18. Biblio: This link leads to Biblio’s “Bargain & Cheap Medical Books” section.
19. BiggerBooks: Biggerbooks.com offers a wide selection of new and used books, bestselling books, new releases, textbooks and more.
20. Book Closeouts: While this site may not carry everything you need, their prices are great…you might want to check here before anywhere else.
21. Google Search: You can compare prices on all nursing textbooks through this search engine.
22. Half.com: This link leads to Half.com’s textbook section, where you can search for books by title, author, keyword or ISBN.
23. Powells: This bookseller carries over 14,000 textbooks, many at deep discount prices.

Textbook Sites

24. Afford a Book: Use this site to search for the lowest price on books, college textbooks and school books.
25. BigWords: Use this site to compare all the best textbook stores at once to find the cheapest textbook deals around.
26. Book Circus: Control how much you spend for your textbooks at this site.
27. Bookbyte: Buy and sell textbooks easily with the tools at this site.
28. Booksprice: Buy at discount and resell when you’re through at this textbook search engine.
29. Campusbooks: This link leads directly to nursing textbooks available at this textbook sales site.
30. Cheap Books: Search for books by ISBN or by title and sell the book here when you finish your course.
31. Cheap College: Buy and sell your textbooks at this site.
32. Cheap-Textbooks.com: Use this search engine to find textbooks by ISBN.
33. Cheapest Textbooks: Many students using this site have saved over 95 percent off their textbooks.
34. Daves Campus: Compare textbooks from all over the Internet in one easy search.
35. eCampus: Find books by title, author, ISBN or keyword at this textbook site.
36. PhatCampus: A giant inventory of new and used college books allows this business to offer their texts to you at very low prices.
37. Swapbooks: Buy, sell or swap books at this marketplace for used textbooks.
38. TextbookLand: Compare your new and used textbook prices at all the online book stores in just a few seconds.
39. Textbooks.com: This link leads to a large list of nursing textbooks available at this site. You also can conduct specific searches.
40. Textbooks R Us: Use this textbook site’s search engine to find books by ISBN.
41. TextbookX: This site has over 930,000 titles in stock, most shipping within 1-2 business days.
42. Wholesale College Textbooks: This site caries a number of U.S. and international edition college textbooks that are priced well below discounted books at other sites.

Textbook Rentals

43. BookRenter: Really, the practice of buying a book, using it, and selling it is really just a rental, right? Give it a shot at this trusted site.
44. BookSwim: Build a rental pool with no due dates, no late fees and no pressure.
45. CampusBookRentals: Every rental comes with a worry free guarantee and it doesn’t cost a penny to return your rented textbooks at the end of the semester.
46. Cengage Brain: Buy or rent the way you want to read and learn — textbooks, eBooks, eChapters or audio.
47. Chegg: Get a 30-day guarantee and a guaranteed delivery date, too. Return them free at the end of your semester or quarter.
48. College Book Renter: Rent your nursing textbooks and save up to 85 percent off regular book sales. You also can purchase books here.
49. Skoobit: Rent textbooks and return them for free after you’re finished with them.
50. Textbook Rentals: Use this handy search tool to enter the textbook you’re looking to rent and to find the price each store is charging to rent the book.