You might want to check out the cheap textbook website for errors

The San Francisco Chronicle today has an article about a website that is supposed to give students alternative options, i.e., cheaper prices, for buying assigned textbooks.  But the article notes that the site has some problems.  It may give a price for other than the latest edition of the assigned book.  And it omits Amazon as a possible source.

I tried the website for my two departments, management and public policy.  For whatever reason, it had listings for the former but not the latter.  It picks up any assigned books for the departments and courses it does list, whether they are textbooks or some other kind of book.

If you are teaching and assigning books, you might want to check what the site is telling your students in case there are errors (such as listing an earlier edition).

The article, which also features concerns from university bookstores that they will lose business if students buy books online, can be found at:
http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Textbook-price-check-tool-met-with-doubt-3814479.php

The cheap book website is:
http://www.20mm.org/Textbook-Search.html