There was a day when books where quite expensive!

If you are in the market for a great read then I suggest you head on over to the Half.com books section. If you have yet to

, then you might be in for a nice surprise. When you do, you will quickly see that the days of paying huge sums for new releases are clearly long gone. In fact, you can purchase some great new releases (in hardcover no less) for much less than you might expect. For example, at the time of this post, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson” was available in hardcover for $7.18!

Half Price Books? Try 1/4 Price Books at Half.com Books!

The book mentioned above is actually 74% off the suggested list price of $27.95. Yes, you are reading this right – you can pay almost 25% of the list from buying this book on Half.com. Of course, if you are only looking for half price books then you can just focus on those. However, if you want to save even more..then read on! Some new releases which you can save a ton of money on are new book about Bobby Fischer for $11.19 and The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier for a mere $6.07. Some of the prices are so cheap you will feel like you are just borrowing from your local library – the difference being – you don’t have to return the book when you are done reading it!

Half.com Best Seller Section is Ready for You to View

If you are not quite sure what book you want to buy or shopping for a gift, then you might want to click on over to the Half.com Best Seller Section. Half.com has all the books aligned in order of popularity – which makes the searching so much easier. At the time of this post, the books in the best seller section were “The Help by Kathryn Stockett”, “Game of Thrones Boxed Set by George R.R. Martin”, “A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard” and more. Need books for school? Then you might want to check out the brand new Half.com Textbook Rental service. You can rent textbooks for school instead of buying – and save tons of money in the process. With Half.com books, the possibilities seem endless.

Save a ton of cash renting textbooks from Half.com instead of buying

Anyone who has been or is a college student knows the unbelievable cost of purchasing textbooks for school. By using the half.com rental service, you can now save lots of money and only rent textbooks for the quarter or period in which you actually need them. Think of it! No old books cluttering up your dorm room and its economically friendly to boot! There is an absolutely huge selection of textbooks to choose from and you can compare pricing with a good variety of sellers. To top it all off there is free return shipping to boot.

Example Textbook Rental from Half.com:
Lets say you need a copy of Algebra and Trigonometry by Lothar Redlin, James Steward and Saleem Watson.

Click on the book to rent on Half.com

To purchase the book you would normally spend about $200. With Half.com’s new book rental service you can rent the same book for 125 days for $85.97. That’s less than half the retail price – and I didn’t even need to use Algebra OR Trigonometry to figure that one out! Of course, if you are just looking for huge savings then you might want to visit our section on their half price books.

We officially declare this “really, really neat stuff!”