Author Takes Aim at College Bookstores, Provides Students With Weapons Against High Textbook Costs
Stephen Windwalker's new book:Buying Books Online: Finding Bargains and Saving Money with Book sense Stores, Amazon Marketplace, and Other Online
Sites shows college students how to save hundreds of dollar on textbooks and course required reading.
A new paperback by best selling small business author Stephen Windwalker takes aim at the monopolistic practices of college bookstores. It provides college students with their most effective weapon in their ongoing struggle against the high cost of textbooks and other required course reading.
Entitled Buying Books Online: Finding Bargains and Saving Money with Book sense Stores, Amazon Marketplace, and Other Online Sites, Windwalker's book is an invaluable guide to navigate the growing selection of online book selling venues so as to ensure the best value, condition, service, and shipping speed while avoiding internet fraud and other buying
disappointments. To help bargain hunters, Windwalker has discounted this book through Choosebooks.com http://www.choosebooks.com
Although Windwalker did not write the book exclusively for college students, he incorporated the recent experiences of his younger daughter, a 2002 Barnard College graduate, in a full chapter for college and university students: "Buying Books for College, Graduate or Professional School."
"For decades college bookstores have enjoyed an effective monopoly, and they have often used it to extract every available dollar from students," charges Windwalker. "The Internet has helped students break that stranglehold, as online selling venues such as Amazon.com, eBay, and half.com have given rise to tens of thousands of book selling entrepreneurs who compete with each other in price, selection, and service.
| | - hope is that students will use my book to take advantage of this competition and turn it into savings for themselves while avoiding the pitfalls that may await less savvy consumers," said Windwalker. Over the course of a college career, students can save hundreds of dollars by using the information provided in Buying Books Online.
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Buying Books Online includes reference material such as guides to the book descriptions and abbreviations used by booksellers, a directory of some of the most reputable online booksellers, and suggested methods for evaluating customer feedback and other information to avoid disappointing buying experiences.
Windwalker is also the author of Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Book selling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites, one of Amazon's top ten small business titles in 2002. A successful online bookseller himself, he is also the founder of the Online Book selling Resource Center. Both of Windwalker's books are available on Choosebooks.com http://www.choosebooks.com
For more information, review copies, or to set up an interview, contact:
Harvard Perspectives Press (harvardperspecpr@aol.com) or Fax: 617-588-0906
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