SwapYourTextbooks.com Fights Back Against Unfair Textbook Prices

Flower Mound, TX (PRWEB) August 26, 2005

Dallas, TX. SwapYourTextbooks.com is the first and only even exchange textbook website for students nationwide. The website eliminates the need for buying and selling textbooks by giving its members the ability to trade in even exchanges. The founders of this website took the idea of trading books with your classmates to a new level. They created a unique database that allows students to trade textbooks in a way that has never been seen before. The company hopes to make higher education more attainable through the savings that come from this service.

"As a college student myself, I know how it feels to spend $ 400 on textbooks, then receive $ 100 back," said Aaron Francis, co-founder. "I then watched in awe as my classmates purchased the books I just traded in. SwapYourTextbooks.com was created on the basis that students should come together and benefit from each other."

Members will place the books they have into their SwapYourTextbooks.com inventory. The student then searches the database to locate the books they need. Students are asked to disclose the condition of their books, and members rate each other based on reliability and speed of shipping. A credit system has been created so members can trade a book for a book without being restricted to one person. Each book will be valued at one credit. This allows members to value books solely as credits and trade freely with students nationwide. According to survey data collected on the University of North Texas campus in May of 2005, an average college student will save an estimated $ 615 a year.

"With students paying such high amounts for their tuition and fees these days, the importance of lowering textbook prices is at an all-time high," said Aaron Morrison, President. SwapYourTextbooks.com is officially the first and only national even exchange website for college textbooks. The website uses a similar even exchange system that has made Netflix successful while providing the functionality and feedback options that has made eBay what it is today.

Everyone who registers by October 31 will receive a free credit. "We’re basically giving away a book just for signing up," states Brian Gilmore, Vice President. "How many college students don’t like something for free?"

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Textbook Buyback Company MyBookBuyer.com Provides Top 10 Winning Scholarship Essay Tips

Milpitas, CA (Vocus) July 27, 2010

Textbook buyback company MyBookBuyer.com has taken lessons learned from reviewing more than two hundred scholarship essays and compiled a list of the top ten ways to win a scholarship essay contest.

Over the past several years, MyBookBuyer.com has become an important resource for college students who need to sell books for cash at the end of the semester. This year, the company added to the list of services it provides to students, launching the Textbooks for a Year Scholarship Essay Contest, a biannual award designed to provide winning students with enough to pay for textbooks for an entire year.

More than two hundred students from dozens of colleges and universities across the country entered the Spring 2010 contest. In addition, over two dozen essays have already been submitted for the Fall 2010 scholarship, which has a deadline of October 31, 2010. In reviewing all the essays, MyBookBuyer was able to identify qualities that separated the best essays from the rest.

With the economy still down and the cost of education continuing to go up, all scholarships are becoming more and more competitive all the time. With the help of MyBookBuyer's essay-writing tips, students stand a much better chance of receiving some much-needed help with the high price of college.

The tips include advice on paying attention to detail, strategies for planning out an essay before writing it, and tips on revision, in addition to several other guidelines for writing a winning essay.

The list is just one more way that MyBookBuyer is working to help students better afford the cost of tuition and textbooks. In addition to giving students cash for books, the site hopes the advice will help some students to win scholarships like the Textbooks for a Year Scholarship essay contest and help reduce the financial burden of school.

MyBookBuyer is the book and textbook buyback service of Beagle Books, the largest online bookseller in Northern California, finding new homes for thousands of books a month. Those books MyBookBuyer absolutely cannot resell the company recycles or donates to Resource Area For Teachers (RAFT), a non-profit organization that provides classroom materials to teachers. The complete list can be found at: Top 10 Ways to Win a Scholarship Essay Contest.

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