University text books

[crapmemory]

My son studied mechanical engineering and management at Warwick university. He graduated (with honours) in 2006. In my loft are numerous text books that cost a fortune but we were unable to sell them as the students were told they had to have the current year text book!
Does anybody know of anywhere that I can sell these.(Tried Ebay..no success :( ). TIA

[Mosaic]

Set yourself up with a seller account on amazon - it's dead easy, hen people just buy from you. I've flogged loads of books this way.

[jno]

got any local second-hand bookshops you could try? Or online ones? (I've got a card for one called fatbrain.co.uk, but I can't get into their website at the moment)

[crapmemory]

Thanks I think I'll try Amazon.

[mike11111]

I don't know about mechanical engineering, but when I studied law it had to be the latest edition, as law changes so rapidly. The university bookshop near me would buy back unwanted copies of text books @ 30%, then resell them @ 50%, but only the latest editions. Earlier editions were worthless.

[crapmemory]

The university bookshop didn't want them!

[mike11111]

My point exactly. They are out of date. You might as well bin them as they are no good to man nor beast. Students used to sell their textbooks via the student notice board when they had finished a particular course, but there were only takers if that was the latest edition. Apart from Latin and Greek texts I can't see you getting an audience for old editions.