Rent or Buy New and Used Textbooks Online, Save 54%: BookFinder.com's Search Engine Finds the Best Deals Among 150 Million Books For Sale

BookFinder.com's one-stop ecommerce search engine is helping students locate the best prices on college textbooks, thanks to the site's massive inventory of 150 million new, used, international, and rental titles: http://www.bookfinder.com/textbooks/

"We help students save over 50% versus campus bookstores by finding the best deals from over 150,000 booksellers around the world, including indies, rental providers, and resellers of international editions," says BookFinder.com founder Anirvan Chatterjee. Chatterjee, 30, developed the original search technology in 1997 as a class project at the University of California, Berkeley.

In addition to helping students find books to buy, BookFinder.com now also allows students to rent textbooks by the quarter or semester from market leaders Chegg (formerly known as TextBookFlix) and BookRenter.com; as with books for sale, the search engine compares prices between rental providers, always including the cost of shipping to avoid unexpected surprises.

Students can save 54% buying textbooks from BookFinder.com, according to a survey conducted last week, based on prices for six sample courselists at UC Berkeley, Duke, and the University of Iowa. At their local campus bookstores, students would pay an average $325.80 for their semester's textbooks. Buying the same books cost an average of $150.05 via BookFinder.com, including shipping -- a real-life savings of $175.75, or 54%.

College students can save even more by buying a different edition of the same book such as international, alternate, or older editions. "Buying secondhand textbooks offers the largest overall savings," says Chatterjee. "For best results, use the ISBN to find the correct edition, look at the total price including shipping, read the condition description that our partner booksellers provide, and make sure to shop around -- the best-known sites aren't always the cheapest."

In the BookFinder.com price survey of 47 textbooks from six courselists, the best prices turned up over a dozen different online bookstores and marketplaces searched by BookFinder.com's search engine, underscoring the importance of comparison shopping.

Source: BookFinder.com

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