ALTADENA, CA, August 13, 2002 - Five years to the week after first opening its virtual doors, Best Book Buys® (www.bestbookbuys.com), reported today that college students and consumers have saved over $15 million over suggested list price by purchasing books through the Best Book Buys service. Best Book Buys, a leading online book comparison shopping site and a service of Best Web Buys, also reported 1.1 million books have been purchased with an average savings potential of 31 percent over list price. College students representing more than 1500 colleges nationwide have used Best Book Buys to reduce the costs of their required books.
"As a company we are extremely proud to be marking our five year anniversary and rank as our highest achievement that we are accomplishing our mission of helping consumers save time and money with their online shopping," said Steve Loyola, founder and president of Best Web Buys. "We are also proud that over the last five years we have helped students from hundreds of colleges across the country save money on their books."
Best Book Buys search features have contributed to its growth. Unlike other online shopping comparison sites, Best Book Buys calculates a shopper's total costs including shipping and applicable taxes before placing an order. Best Book Buys also details a list of "Hot Deals" offered by their bookstore partners for additional savings. In addition, Best Book Buys only searches among reputable stores providing good customer service unlike others who search scores of stores that may not provide the best service.
Quick Searches Translate to Deep Savings
A search for four college books titled "General Chemistry" (ISBN 0030212146), "Calculus and Analytic Geometry" (ISBN 0201531747), "MCSE Training Kit" (ISBN 0735611300)
and "The Chicago Manual of Style" (ISBN 0226103897) illustrate the savings Best Book Buys offers. These four books have a combined list price of $499.94. A search today at Best Book Buys finds these same books selling for $358.03 new and $180.19 used. This amounts to a savings of 28 percent (new) or 64 percent (used) off the list price.
Awards and Accolades
Over the last five years, Best Book Buys has received accolades from a number of sources including Forbes "Best of the Web", The Today Show, Money, Smart Money, USA Weekend, PC Magazine, Cool Site of the Year Awards, and CoolShopping.com.
About Best Book Buys
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), half.com, and Powell's. Besides serving the college market, Best Book Buys also helps consumers find new, used, closed-out and audio books.
Best Book Buys was the first category site to emerge from the Best Web Buys family in August 1997. The second product site, Best Music Buys was launched in September 1999 with Best Bike Buys and Best Video Buys quickly following. Best Electronic Buys is the most recent site to have emerged. Steve Loyola, a former Jet Propulsion Laboratory computer scientist, founded the company. The company is located at 2400 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena, California, 91001 and can be reached at 626.296.6260.
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Editors Note: Best Book Buys, Best Bike Buys, Best Music Buys, Best Video Buys, Best Electronic 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.
