Now, the 95 percent of college students who regularly use the Internet, according to the Student Monitor, can search for the best deals from online textbook stores who will buyback their used textbooks. Best Book Buys is the first online comparison shopping site to offer this feature.

Students can quickly find the best buyback deals on their books by accessing www.bestbookbuys.com and then choosing the buyback link. To search for the best buyback deals, they would enter the book's 10 digit ISBN number in the "search" box. Best Book Buys will find the prices that each store is willing to pay, and will display all the buyback options in an easy-to-compare table.

A buyback search at Best Book Buys for "Conceptual Physics" (ISBN 0321009711), finds buyback prices ranging from $41.91 to $20. Students can recoup approximately 55 percent of this book's original suggested list price of $84.00 by choosing a buyback of $41.91.

"The average student spends about $610 each year on their books," said Steve Loyola, President of Best Book Buys "With this new buyback service, we can provide students with an easy way to find which stores will buy back their books and for what price. We can also offer them an easy way to compare the buyback options across the leading online college textbook stores whether or not they bought their books online."

The Best Book Buys service searches 29 online bookstores including Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BKS), Borders (NYSE: BGP), 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, close-out 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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