ALTADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2000--Best Book Buys(TM) (www.bestbookbuys.com), a leading online book shopping comparison site for college students and a service of Best Web Buys, today announced the addition of AllBooks4less.com, ecampus.com, and Textbooksatcost.com to the list of online bookstores that it searches.
With these new online bookstore additions, the nation's 15 million college students can now easily and quickly compare the price of new and used books across 28 bookstores, including six that specialize in college textbooks, at www.bestbookbuys.com.
"Instead of paying $450 for my books at the campus bookstore for Fall 1999 I saved $300 by buying my books online through Best Book Buys service," said Omid Yasharel, a senior economics major at the University of California at Irvine. "By using Best Book Buys service I was able to save myself money as well as time by having Best Book Buys do all the comparison shopping for me."
With their assigned booklists in hand, students can quickly search for their books at www.bestbookbuys.com by title, author, keyword or ISBN code. Best Book Buys search results list the online stores that carry the book and detail the item price of the book, charges for sales tax and shipping, and the availability of the book at each store.
The Best Book Buys service searches 28 online bookstores including Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Borders, BigWords, Textbooks.com, VarsityBooks.com and Page One to find the widest selection of books at the lowest prices. In addition to serving the college market, Best Book Buys also helps consumers find used closeout and audio books.
Best Book Buys has received a number of accolades including being named by Money Magazine as the winner for finding the best online book deals. In December 1999, USA Weekend listed Best Book Buys as one of the best web sites for finding holiday gift bargains. CoolShopping.com and Surfers Choice both recently selected Best Book Buys as one of the best sites on the Web. In January 1999, Best Book Buys beat out Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and other online book sellers to be voted the 1998 Coolest Book Site of the Year by the 4th Annual Cool Site of the Year Awards.
Best Book Buys is a subsidiary of Best Web Buys and was founded in 1997 by Steve Loyola, a former Jet Propulsion Laboratory computer scientist. The company is located at 2400 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena, California, 91001 and can be reached at 626.296.6260. The company is closely held. Business inquiries should be directed to Steve Loyola.
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