Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. Launches textbooks.com to Meet All the Needs of the Online College Community.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 1999-- Largest Online Selection of Used Textbooks World's Largest Selection of Book Titles Lucrative Cash-Back Guarantees Discounts Up to 80% on Hard-To-Find-Textbooks and 90% on Bargain Books Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc., the country's leading manager of college and university bookstores, announced the launch of its online textbook site, http://www.textbooks.com. The site has the largest online selection of new and used textbooks and provides online textbook ordering for students, faculty and professionals with home, dormitory or office delivery. textbooks.com offers more than six million new and used textbooks, and an additional eight million general books through its link to barnesandnoble.com. "textbooks.com offers the academic community the most extensive selection of textbooks, the largest standing inventory of any online textbook site, many at discount prices, ease of use, and fast and convenient delivery," said Max Roberts, president of Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. "Our online customers tap into all the resources of the Barnes & Noble family of companies. These resources include the widest choice of books and discounts, a state-of-the-art distribution system, and years of experience serving colleges and universities throughout the country." textbooks.com features: - Access to more than six million new, used and out-of-print textbooks. - Largest online selection of used textbooks. - Lucrative cash-back guarantees. - Significant textbook discounts, including discounts of up to 80 percent for hard-to-find textbooks. - Through its link with barnesandnoble.com, more than six and a half million out-of-print and rare books, as well as the largest online selection of bargain books discounted up to 90 percent. - Fast search engine, easy navigation, and the finest security protection for transactions. - Student and business affiliate program. About Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. P. Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. -- a privately-held sister company to Barnes & Noble, Inc., the nation's largest bookseller -- operates college bookstores at more than 350 institutions of higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. including Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. , California State at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was , University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. , Nassau Community College Nassau Community College (NCC) is a two-year college. It is located in East Garden City, New York. The school is in Nassau County on Long Island. Nassau Community College is the largest two-year college in New York, with 20,000 students, and offers a large variety of programs. , Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. , C. W. Post, University of Chicago, and the Coops at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . |
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