It is up to you whether you want to throw out the old text books or donate them to a library or sell them to your juniors. But there is no point in debating that old text books are the most useful things under the sun, rather there are lots of reasoning behind the point that the old textbooks are really useless once you are done with your studies. It would be wrong to think that as the text books loose their literary value after a few years, they have also lost their monetary worth. Most of the students retrieve their money by selling the textbooks back to the college bookstores.
The old and used text books have a huge market almost all over the world. The market is regional but almost every where there is a uniform demand of old or used textbooks. The price of the used books depends on various things. Mostly the prices are 50% of the original price and sometimes the prices are more or less depending on the condition of the books.
A great research value is attached to some of the old textbooks. People writing books on education system of the 19 th century can refer to these text books as referrals. These old textbooks are also like goldmines for the history students as much information can be retrieved and assessed from these old used books.
Apart from the school and college book stores, many private stores also sell the old textbooks. But Internet in the 21 st century has managed to create an international market of these books. Numerous websites are devoted to the selling and buying of the old textbooks and both the students and the teachers make full use of it.
