College Students Utilize SlugBooks.com to Find Cheapest Prices for Textbooks

Free Price Comparison Site Allows Students at Over 20 Schools to Search for Every Textbook for Every Course and Have One-Click Access to Rent, Buy or Download

Santa Cruz, CA, January 6, 2011 – As students across the country prepare to head back to their college or university, they will once again be confronted with the question of how to save the most on their textbooks. With textbook costs continuing to increase every semester and students wanting to save money and ensure that they are getting the best prices on their books, SlugBooks.com provides a free price-comparison tool that lists every book required for every course at over 20 schools and has easy one-click access to either rent, purchase or download the book. In addition, SlugBooks.com offers a free "book exchange" service via Facebook, allowing users to post books that they would like to sell directly to other students.

With dozens of options – from online rentals and book exchanges to the college bookstore, digital books and internet retailers – students may be overpaying for books that they could get for less at a different store or site. At SlugBooks.com, students can find the cheapest book option by simply selecting their college on the site and clicking the department and course. All of the required books for the Spring Semester will be listed, with current prices.

Students are shown price comparisons from major book rental companies including Chegg.com and BookRenter.com, key internet retailers such as Amazon.com and Half.com, digital book sellers including Amazon Kindle and Coursesmart, and they will also be shown the price of the book at the college bookstore. After seeing the prices, they can click on the link for the lowest price and instantly purchase, rent or download the book of their choice.

"SlugBooks.com is designed to do one thing: save college students money on their textbooks," said David Miller, founder and CEO of SlugBooks.com. "No other site provides students with an easier way to save time and money on their textbook search and best of all, the service is free."

To make the book buying experience even easier and less costly, SlugBooks.com offers a book exchange service via Facebook. Users simply click 'Connect' on the site and they are set up with an account on SlugBooks that allows them to list books they currently own. The exchange, run through email, also allows users to post their listings on SlugBooks to their Facebook wall - posting a picture of the book, the class it is being used for and asking if anyone in their network needs the book. Once the connection is made between buyer and seller, they are free to work out a fair price between themselves.

SlugBooks.com currently provides free price comparisons for required textbooks at over 20 schools across the country including UCLA, University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State, Northwestern, University of Florida and University of Chicago. A complete list of schools available can be seen at SlugBooks.com. The site plans on adding new schools over the coming months.

Students have already starting saving money by using the site. Demsina Babazadeh, a freshman at UC Davis said, "I used SlugBooks last quarter and saved over $235 on my textbooks! SlugBooks made it so easy to compare the different options for where to buy my books in one place. After SlugBooks, I didn't have to go anywhere else!"

To help students make the right choices and have instant book access, SlugBooks.com also offers a "First Chapter Free" option that allows for online viewing of the first chapter of a textbook. This is especially important for students that may not receive their textbooks by the start of the semester and need to begin reading their books immediately. The site links students to Amazon Kindle for web and Coursesmart (when available for the chosen book). SlugBooks.com is the only comparison site that has implemented this functionality.

About SlugBooks.com

SlugBooks.com provides students with an incredibly powerful savings tool by aggregating all of the textbook information and purchasing options in one place. Today SlugBooks serves over 20 colleges, continuing to fulfill a very simple goal: saving students money on their textbooks. SlugBooks.com has affiliate relationships with some of the largest book sellers, rental services and download services in the country including Amazon.com, Half.com, Chegg.com, BookRenter.com, Amazon Kindle and Coursesmart.