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Bangalore, Karnataka

Sell & buy second hand books in Bangalore

Bangalore's engineering and PU crowd turns over textbooks every semester, which makes it one of the busiest cities on OldTextBooks.com for both buying and selling.

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Buying and selling used textbooks in Bangalore

What circulates in Bangalore

Bangalore's book market is dominated by two groups. The pre-university and CBSE school population turns over Class 11 and 12 science sets every year, and the city's very large engineering intake turns over B.Tech semester references every five months. Both cycles produce complete, recent sets rather than odd single books.

Because so many students in the city move here for college and leave after graduation, end-of-course selling is unusually common — an outgoing batch has little reason to carry a semester library back home.

The offline alternative, and why students stop using it

Bangalore has a real second-hand book trade, from the Avenue Road pavement stalls to campus-gate resellers, and it works if you have an afternoon and a specific title. What it does not give you is a price you can check, a condition grade you can rely on, or any recourse if the book is incomplete.

Listing here instead gets you a suggested price at about 25% of MRP, a review step before the listing goes live, and payment into a wallet you withdraw to UPI — rather than whatever a dealer offers for a stack he has not opened.

Buying and dispatching within the city

Delivery is charged in slabs of ₹100 per five books, so the economics reward buying a full set in one cart. For sellers, packing is the only real task: a plastic-lined wrapper, the order reference on the outside, and the order then moves through Received, Shipped and Delivered states you can follow from your account.

Students at RVCE, BMSCE, PES University, Christ University and the Bangalore University colleges are the most frequent searchers here, so branch-labelled engineering sets and PU science sets find buyers fastest.

Who buys here in Bangalore

Students from RVCE, BMSCE, PES University, Christ University and nearby schools search for sets every session.

What your books are worth

Around 25% of MRP for a good copy. Prices are suggested for you when you list — no haggling with local dealers.

Getting paid in Bangalore

Sale proceeds go to your wallet and withdraw to any UPI ID in multiples of ₹100.

New to reselling? Read where to sell old textbooks in India, or jump to NCERT, JEE, NEET and engineering collections.

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