Best Book Buys Teams Up With AllBooks4less.com, ecampus.com, and Textbooksatcost.com; UCI Student Saves $300 On the Costs of His Books.Business Editors 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 The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). 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 ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 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 (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), Barnes and Noble (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), Borders (NYSE:BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ), 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 “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. 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. 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. |
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