Katharyne Beebower – UCSB, GauchoText.com $75 Textbook winner.

Linda Ngo – UCSC, SlugText.com $75 Textbook Winner. “I love slugtext.com it’s a really convenient site !” – Linda Ngo

Ana Rosa Kareh – UCSC, SlugText.com $75 Textbook Winner. “I used SlugText.com to buy the majority of my books this quarter, and have been completely satisfied with the services it offers.”

Ken French – UCR, RiversideText.com $75 Textbook Winner. “i would normally take a whole day to look up all my classes and books needed for those classes, then look on ebay, amazon, the bookstore, and facebook to find the cheapest prices. riversidetext.com did all of that automatically. made getting books so much easier and quicker.” – Ken French

Congratulations to our winners! We are still confirming additional winners. Please be patient.

Textbo.com Free Textbook Giveaway – 6 Winners Possible!

University of Texas – Austin, LonghornText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

University of Berkeley – California, BerkeleyText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

Penn State University, PSUText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, UNCText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

Thanks to all our participants. We will list all the winners once they have been confirmed.

2010 is here and to kick off the new year we’re giving students a chance to win over $1,350 in free textbooks!

Join our Textbo.com Free Textbook Giveaway by clicking here.

We are also doing free textbook giveaways for specific universities. Click on your university free textbook giveaway link below to join our contest.

UC Santa Cruz – SlugText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

UC Santa Barbara – GauchoText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

UC Riverside – RiversideText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

UC Irvine – IrvineText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

UC Berkeley – BerkeleyText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

UNC Chapel Hill – UNCText.com Free Textbook Giveaway

Happy New Year!

Textbo just started a Scribd account to publish articles about unfair textbook industry practices.

Some unfair textbook practices include:

• Bundling – The act of including additional products (like a CD that comes with your textbook) so that you are forced to purchase a new textbook with a new CD key.
• New Editions – Publishers update textbooks to new editions when there is absolutely no important reason to do so. For many courses, especially GE classes, the material does not change, and neither should the textbooks. Many publishers simply switch words and numbers on problems and that is not worth the cost of a new book for students.
• Private bookstores – Private university bookstores charge students as close to retail prices as they can. They use their convenient location on campus to rip students off. They rarely give you a competitive price when they you try to sell them your used books. They also hold a monopoly on textbook data making it hard for local bookstores to sell more affordable books and also making it hard for students to compare prices.

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