College Textbook Blog

Throughout Obama’s presidential campaign, he often talked about the need to make college more affordable for low and middle income students. In support of this endeavor, Scott Skelton has created a web site to consolidate many sellers of textbooks so the student can select their college textbook at the right price, at the right time, and he believes this will result in significant savings for students.

BookDealFinder is championing the cheap textbooks efforts to bring down the costs of college textbooks. This goal is accomplished by consolidating the online sellers of the textbooks, providing a list of those resellers, the cost of each book, the shipping charges & providing a list of resellers and the lowest costs. The site also has a few companies that will rent the books at even a lower price.

The high cost of textbooks is a significant but often overlooked part of the college cost equation for millions of students. The average student pays about $1,500 for books each year. For students at low-cost public colleges, books can cost as much as 43 percent of tuition and fees.

The textbook market is remarkable because the primary individuals who choose college textbooks (faculty) are not the people that pay for those textbooks (students). Again, BookDealFinder helps find the lowest price, helping the student.

The publishing industry has an issue, the college textbook continues to look much like it did 50 years ago, bound in hardcover and bought in bookstores. Publishers have been reluctant to move textbooks beyond their traditional medium for fear of losing their competitive edge in the market. Placing textbooks online diminishes the value of publisher relationships with printers and bookstores, just as producing a more affordable line of textbooks would undercut their current market. This is where cheap textbooks from Book Deal Finder gets involved.

Students are now benefiting from the innovative thinking of Book Deal Finder. The relatively small investment is now helping struggling students pay less for college textbooks.