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Jessica Gresko

MyBookBuyer.com, a textbook buyback organization, has released the winner of the Textbooks for a Year Scholarship essay contest $ 1,250 grand prize. Jessica Gresko, a Master’s student at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., wrote an essay that has won her textbooks for a year. Runners-up Jamie-Kate Osman of the University of Delaware and Anne Lacher of the College of St. Benedict will get some support from their $ 250 awards when buying or renting textbooks.

The cost of textbooks is rising even faster than inflation, creating a financial hardship for students which is only compounded by a bad economy and a lack of jobs.  “The students come to us to sell back books due to the fact they desperately need the money to purchase books for next semester,” says Michael Der.  MyBookBuyer decided to do something to support the students who come to the site to sell textbooks for money. In the spring of 2010, the web site announced the 1st ever Textbooks for a Year Scholarship Essay Contest. The contest was designed to supply the winner with sufficient funds to acquire textbooks for an entire year and two runner-up awards of $ 250.

The Spring 2010 award was a huge success with hundreds students from across the country writing essays to try and win textbooks for a year. Ultimately, the winner was junior International Health major Danielle Goetter, who wrote about how the book ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ by Barbara Kingsolver had changed her life.  Jessica Gresko’s grand prize-winning essay discussed building schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan as discussed in the book ‘Three Cups of Tea.’ The essay argued that ‘health care can save a life, but only education can better the life of an entire population.’

MyBookBuyer enables users to sell textbooks for cash. MyBookBuyer is the book and textbook buyback service of Beagle Books of Northern California.  Any books MyBookBuyer can not resell are recycled or donated to Resource Region For Teachers (RAFT), a non-profit organization that offers classroom materials to teachers.

eCampus.com Textbook Giant Announces Daily Student Sweepstakes For The Upcoming Back To School Season

Lexington, KY (Vocus) August 10, 2010

eCampus.com, a leading web textbook retailer, launches a Student Sweepstakes giving away every day prizes to customers and students this fall to consumers renting or purchasing textbooks on the web.

As the leading textbook on the web company for college students, eCampus.com is offering a exclusive sweepstakes, giving away a 16GB Apple Ipad, Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect, an eCampus.com branded Motorized Cooler Scooter and other gifts with daily drawings. Each and every student who buys or rents a new/used textbook or etextbook for this fall semester will be entered to win.

“We are usually attempting to show our appreciation to our clients,” said Matt Montgomery, President and CEO of eCampus.com.  “We want students to know that we are trying to maintain them from being broke. With the costs of textbooks rising, we are the very best choice for college students to get their textbooks simple, quickly and low-cost.”

eCampus.com offers students with superb service for a broad range of college campuses nationwide. eCampus.com provides college and high school students the capability to rent textbooks, purchase used or new textbooks, etextbooks and a student marketplace. Students save much more dollars with eCampus.com simply because eCampus.com offers much more textbooks and textbook getting possibilities than any person else.

In addition, textbook rental allows students to cut costs significantly every single semester. Instead of buying multiple books, students can rent textbooks and send them back with totally free shipping when the semester ends. It’s straightforward, quickly and low cost.

ABOUT eCAMPUS.COM

eCampus.com was established on July 2, 1999. Since then, eCampus.com has grown into a main online retailer offering cheap textbooks for college and high school textbooks. eCampus.com’s mission is to supply the easiest, fastest, cheapest way for college and university students to purchase textbooks, rent textbooks and sell textbooks. eCampus.com believes the Internet buying expertise must be enjoyable and shopping for textbooks must be as quickly and convenient as achievable. The firm makes a personal commitment to every single customer that eCampus.com will be the finest source for everything they want.

That is certainly what everybody is hoping for when pricing textbook rentals on RentScouter.  Did you know that certain rental companies also rent other books cheap?  Not phone books, or rare books, but you can certainly rent Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Book series, the Harry Potter series, or even Dr. Seuss Books.  Many of these books are available through CampusBookRentals, but if you want to rent general titles you will be much better off checking out BookSwim or maybe even eBooks.  When you rent books online it is not just for college textbooks anymore, but for all kinds of non-college books that you will actually enjoy.

And remember whenever you are done with those books donate them or sell back your books for cash.