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GetchaBooks, founded by three teenagers (two who are still students at Tufts), has just announced an expanded and improved databases classes and books, pushing the number of schools available in their unique interface from 600 to 1275 people.
GetchaBooks differs from other services like Chegg and Textbooks.com that the search system is centered around the course. Instead of typing "Advanced dance movement for accounting students" in the search box, you choose your schools, courses and sections. GetchaBooks then searches its database of courses and is required reading for each course.
Book bit.LY and Slugbooks also offer search, coure, although Getchabooks a bit more streamlined.
Founder, Michael Walker, charmingly practical about its creation. "We are not in it to get rich and famous, there are definitely more glamorous markets than the textbooks," he said. "We are only three hungry students who had been thwarted, as the bookshop has been terrific for us who decided to do something about it and help our classmates. Oh the naive idealism of youth!
They make their cash through Amazon Web affiliate link so that they do not ship or store any product. There is also a provision does not hire on their website that their more advanced competitors already have. I also found several major colleges, missing in the list, something that definitely needs to be addressed before it gets a wider audience.
However, noble goal: to make it much easier for our future leaders/drinkers of America for their textbooks. It is an interesting concept that turns the textbook sales equation on his head, and I fully, as they say down.
GetchaBooks is a Free comparison service price of textbooks, which helps save time and money when buying their books for students. GetchaBooks was founded in the spring of 2010, the three colleges.
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