ALTADENA, CA, August 21, 2000-Best Book BuysTM, a leading online book shopping comparison site for college students and a service of Best Web Buys, today announced the site has been recognized as a top "Textbooks Site" in SmartMoney Magazine's 2000 Internet Guide. The editors of SmartMoney Magazine evaluated more than 2,000 sites in making their selections of the 52 leading sites in 31 categories.
"I've been reading lately that students don't save much money from buying their textbooks online, but that just isn't true," said Steve Loyola, President of Best Book Buys. "We constantly receive feedback from students who use Best Book Buys to find books at much lower prices than their college bookstore."
"I make online purchases pretty frequently and most often bought books at Amazon.com before I found Best Book Buys about a month ago," said Jessica E. Smith, a junior at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. "Best Book Buys' site allowed me to save $40 on my textbooks for this semester, and I appreciate having that extra cash in my pocket."
For example, three popular textbooks titled "General Chemistry" (ISBN 0030061881), "Microeconomics"(ISBN 0201336251), and "Business" (ISBN 130796115) have a combined list price of $273. A search at www.BestBookBuys.com finds these same books selling for $206 new and $140 used. This amounts to a savings of 24 percent (new) or 49 percent (used) off the list price.
Best Book Buys compares prices, shipping and availability of more than 3 million titles at dozens of online bookstores including Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BNBN), Borders (NYSE: BGP), BigWords, Textbooks.com, VarsityBooks.com and Page One.
Best Book Buys is also the first online shopping comparison site to have a Buyback Search Service which allows students to search for the best prices to sell back their textbooks whether or not they bought their books online.
Besides serving the college market, Best Book Buys also helps consumers find new, used, close-out and audio books.
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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Editors Note: Best Book Buys and Best Web Buys are trademarks of Best Web Buys. All other trade or brand names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
