New MyBookBuyer app Allows Students to Sell Textbooks on Facebook

Milpitas, Calif. (Vocus) February 16, 2010 -- Cash-strapped students can now sell textbooks (http://www.mybookbuyer.com) without leaving Facebook, thanks to the new app released by textbook buyback company MyBookBuyer designed to allow students to avoid the long lines, limited buyback days and general inconvenience of selling back their textbooks at the end of the term.

“This app offers students a convenient and easy way to sell their used textbooks without ever having to leave Facebook,” says MyBookBuyer spokesperson Amy Finch. The service couldn’t come at a better time for students.

Textbook prices continue to skyrocket, rising faster than inflation and even faster than the cost of tuition, adding to the already heavy financial burden facing college students. For a growing number, recouping some of that money by selling textbooks (http://www.mybookbuyer.com/selling-textbooks.htm) at the end of the semester or quarter is an important part of how they stay afloat and afford the high cost of education.

For years, MyBookBuyer has provided students an alternative to standing in line for hours at college bookstores or waiting for each book to sell on sites like Amazon and shipping them out one by one. At MyBookBuyer.com, the company provides free quotes to let students instantly find out how much they can get for their used textbooks. Students can then sell all their books at once, and get a free, prepaid shipping label to use to send in their books. Now the company is making textbook buyback (http://www.mybookbuyer.com/textbook-buyback.htm) even more convenient with their new Facebook app.

For many students, Facebook is as much a part of their routine as class or homework. They already use the site to keep up with friends, share photos and play games. Now between ‘liking’ their friend’s latest status update and planting new batch of crops in Farmville, students can sell used textbooks (http://www.mybookbuyer.com/sell-used-textbooks.htm) without even leaving the social networking site.

“Students need to get back some of the money they spend on textbooks, but they’re also busy,” says MyBookBuyer employee Richard Converse, “since so many students are already on Facebook, an app just seemed to make sense.”

The application offers all the same functionality of MyBookBuyer.com, letting students look up their textbooks by ISBN number, and letting them print free shipping labels for either UPS or the US Postal Service. Students can even get paid online through PayPal, but they also have the option of getting a real, paper check sent to them through the mail.

MyBookBuyer says the app may revolutionize the way that students sell college textbooks (http://www.mybookbuyer.com/selling-college-textbooks.htm), betting that students would rather not lug their books all the way to their campus bookstore when they can just visit the app located in a tab on the MyBookBuyer Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/mybookbuyer. MyBookBuyer has also used their fan page to organize fundraisers for important causes, raising nearly $3,000 for disaster relief in Haiti, the fight against breast cancer, and the Toys for Tots program over the past 6 months. The page is already over 6,500 fans strong.

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