A couple years ago, when David Miller was himself a college student at UC Santa Cruz, he also worked at a co-op bookstore. The bookstore’s main mission was to undercut the prices of the official ...

SlugBooks, which touts itself as the Kayak for college textbooks, has announced that its comparisons feature has launched for Canadian universities, starting with over 900 schools in total. The ...

A Series Of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: David Miller, Founder and CEO, SlugBooks... SlugBooks is an odd name but its value is very straight forward for ...

If you attend one of the dozens of universities SlugBooks covers in its web database, you're in luck. The comparison site shows you, course by course, the cheapest prices for buying or renting new or ...

SANTA CRUZ — To reach its continually changing market, SlugBooks, an online shopping tool for college textbooks, has attempted an inventive advertising strategy: cartoons. In December, the company ...

San Francisco-based Slugbooks, a textbook price-comparison platform that aims to help students save money, today announced its first international expansion outside the U.S. with a site targeted at ...

Technology is making college a little more affordable. There is one thing all students have in common. They all need multiple text books and that costs money. University of Texas student Austin Hall ...

Amazon was probably the most organized of the three websites that I tried. Not only did it list the new, used and rental prices in separate categories, but it also provided filters for the condition ...

In 2008, Congress passed the HEOA, a groundbreaking federal law designed to tackle the rapidly rising cost of textbooks directing colleges nationwide by requiring disclosure of college textbook costs ...

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...