Comparing College Textbook Prices Online Saves Students an Average of 58

Percent Over List Price

    SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The average first-year college
 student now spends over $900 on textbooks and the cost of college textbooks
 continue to rise. Industry-wide practices such as "bundling" and increased
 marketing costs drive more and more students to purchase cheaper textbooks
 online. With many sites offering "lowest prices" and "savings",
 CampusBooks.com stands out as a resource that offers students a reliable
 alternative to high-priced books and bookstores.
     With new editions of the same textbook released nearly every year with
 little new content but higher retail prices, students and parents often do
 not know where to turn for perspective in this competitive cost landscape.
 CampusBooks.com serves more than one million textbook price comparisons to
 students each year.
     "CampusBooks.com is a comparison shopping Web site where students can
 view price results from over 40 of the top online bookstores," said Alex
 Neal, President and Founder of CampusBooks.com. "We not only offer students
 both new and used textbooks from over 5,000,000 titles, we also offer
 cutting-edge services to make the shopping experience easier and less
 painful."
     At CampusBooks.com, students save an average of $40 on the cost of a
 new textbook and $56 on the cost of a used textbook. Students select from
 search results that include prices from the different bookstores searched
 as well as the CampusBooks Marketplace. In addition to providing cost
 comparisons free-of-charge to users, CampusBooks.com facilitates a
 marketplace where students buy and sell books directly to each other online
 without disclosing their personal information. The CampusBooks book
 database includes the book title, author, ISBN, publisher, publish date,
 format, and edition so students can make sure they are buying or selling
 the correct book. This allows students to have equal footing with major
 bookstores and all search results are displayed on the same page.
     Students also have access to price alert, a service that allows
 students to enter an ISBN and preferred price and when the book hits the
 price listed, an email is sent to notify the buyer. To increase the overall
 ease of shopping, CampusBooks.com also offers a book bag pricing service
 that allows users to enter all of the books they need and let
 CampusBooks.com do all of the work -- securing all of the books for the
 lowest price from a single purchase point. CampusBooks.com can also secure
 eBooks as an alternative to traditional paper textbooks.
     "The average student saved over $180 buying their books on our site,"
 says Neal. "Students also sell their books for $24 more on average than
 what they would have gotten at the campus bookstore buyback."
     About CampusBooks.com
     CampusBooks.com was founded in 1998 and is the leading textbook
 comparison shopping web site serving hundreds of thousands of students each
 year. Our goal is to make buying textbooks easy and affordable with the
 guaranteed lowest price on new and used textbooks and friendly service.
 Please visit us at http://www.campusbooks.com.
 
 

SOURCE CampusBooks.com