This topic is interesting for a couple reasons.  First, the strategy of Amazon getting into the textbook buyback business is an interesting business model.  Second, many people that read this blog are students that can probably make use of this service.  It will be interesting to see how long college bookstores can operated as they have in the past with increased competition on this front not to mention the pressure from Kindle textbooks and the potential of textbooks being replaced by open-source products.

I see that Amazon is paying about $78 for the Horngren textbook we use in Acct 320 and it looks like they will pay the shipping as well.  This might be a good avenue for those of you looking to sell books especially if a book you have is an old edition that the bookstore is not buying back.

Here is the link:

http://amzn.to/bookbuyback