Depending upon their course work, college students spend anywhere from $1,000 to $1,200 per semester on their textbooks. While the immediate cost of their books is a bitter pill for most, their bigger shock comes at the end of the semester when attempt to sell their “almost-new books” to their sources – normally the campus bookstores. Regrettably, the same textbook that cost a student $100 in August will only get him (her) $10 to $15 when he attempt to sell it back to the bookstore in December.