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Textbooks* at OU and beyond
Renting textbooks
Selected textbook rental websites









Buying textbooks
Selected online textbook stores







 



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Digital textbooks

 
Buy digital copies of your textbook and get immediate access. 
Tablet and mobile users can download free eTextbooks app.

 
You can  use Kindle for PC  to read Kindle e-textbooks on your PC.


Buy a digital copy of your textbook, take notes, highlight, share....

 
Another website for purchasing digital textbooks on your desktop, online or your smart phone.  Allows note-taking, highlighting, etc.  Has books from popular textbook publishers like Elsevier.
Search and comparison tools
To search for specific books across online stores
and find the cheapest prices





 




(also shows the highest cash paying buyback for textbooks that students want to sell)
At Oakland University
OU Barnes and Noble Bookstore:
Kresge Library:
Course reserve: search for books for your course.

To identify the right edition of the textbook,  have ready the following information:  title, name of the lead author/editor, and the ISBN number (or alternatively, the publisher and date of publication).
Free textbooks
Bookboon

Flat World Knowledge

MERLOT open textbooks

Orange Grove Texts Plus

Open Educational Resources Commons textbooks
helps find open textbooks online.

Open Textbooks from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
list of free, open textbooks. Also free copyrighted textbooks.

Textbook Revolution
"a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors...On this site you'll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources."

Illumina
a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.

O'Reilly Open Books Project
computer and technology related books from the publisher.
To learn more
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This page is designed to provide information about available sources for textbooks. Content and usability of those sources has not been evaluated. Viewers are responsible for selecting and using these sources appropriately.

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