TextBook

If there's one thing college students hate more than going to class without a laptop or smartphone, it's paying full price for a $400 textbook they'll barely crack. Although the iPad will be pricey, it may usher a new age of digital textbook adoption to campus.

Just in time for the end of the semester Amazon is rolling out a new textbook trade-in program to turn old textbooks into an Amazon gift card. The service, which is available right now, allows students to search by ISBN, title or author to find out what their used textbooks are worth and if the...

Laura McCurdy of Rhode Island wrote to WalletPop about her problem with Textbookwheel.com, a site that markets itself as a place to get cash for old college texts. She followed the directions and shipped off what she said the site reported as $243 worth of books. She said she shipped the books a...