BIGWORDS.com New Textbook Price Comparison Technology Saves College Students $45/Textbook (Ave.)
Maverick Online Textbook Resource Launches the Most Advanced Price Comparison Engine;
Adds Web 2.0 Usability, Minimum Quality Standards, All Marketplace Offers, Flexible Shipping.
Annapolis, MD—August 3, 2007—BIGWORDS.com, the leading textbook price comparison search engine since 2001, announced today that its new, more powerful, easier-to-use website using AJAX technology provides the greatest choice and best textbook prices on the Internet, saving students an average of $45 per textbook.
“BIGWORDS.com originated the concept of Multi-Item Price Optimization™ where students can compare prices, vendors, shipping and promotions for several textbooks at the same time to find the lowest total order price,” said BIGWORDS CEO Jeff Sherwood, “and now we are an uber-marketplace comparing all offers - new, used, third party, where our users can include or exclude international editions, specify quality and choose only certain vendors. No other site offers this kind of flexible functionality.”
During the past seven years, BIGWORDS.com has led the industry with innovations like Multi-Item Price Optimization™, and automatic calculation of discounts from vendor promotions by the top textbook sites including Amazon, Half, Abebooks, Alibris and others. Now it is adding more choices and improved technology where students can:
- Rely on BIGWORDS.com to enforce minimum quality standards for sellers and textbooks.
- Include or exclude less expensive international textbook editions.
- Specify the types of items to include - new, used, third party, high quality, etc.
- Select from all offers from top marketplace sites like Amazon Marketplace, Half, etc.
- Get lowest price with affinity program discounts, like Amazon Prime, automatically calculated, if eligible.
- Ignore any particular textbook as BIGWORDS.com will find the next cheapest copy based on preferences.
- Shop faster and easier with the totally new, streamlined Web 2.0 interface.
- Select the shipping speed, and BIGWORDS.com automatically calculates the lowest total price, making sense of shipping complexity and cost.
The user experience has been technologically advanced with a Web 2.0 interface which enhances usability, minimizes page refreshes and speeds up the shopping experience. There’s a Netflix-like “add- to-bag” feature so the user gets instant feedback when adding an item, and a mouse-over “fly-out” bookbag feature so the shopping cart instantly slides down from the top of the screen. AJAX is used throughout the site to make the web pages more interactive, minimize page refreshes, significantly enhancing the user experience. The site also works perfectly well with javascript turned off.
“Our mission is to protect the universe from high textbook prices,” said Sherwood, “and students typically save $45 per textbook. Each year we improve the technology and add more value which is why more than 1,000,000 visitors are using BIGWORDS.com annually. ”
About BIGWORDS.com
BIGWORDS.com is a privately held price comparison web site where college students and others can find the lowest prices on textbooks (really all books), DVDs, music, and games. The BIGWORDS brand is owned by BIGGER WORDS, Inc, Annapolis, MD. For more information please visit http://www.BIGWORDS.com/
Contact Information:
Dick Hackenberg (VP Marketing): 415-710-7570
Jeff Sherwood (CEO and President): 410-849-2046
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