Textbook Revolt Blog

Use Twitter? Win a semester’s worth of free textbooks!

Jaisen — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:32:47 +0000

Do you use Twitter? If so, you can win a semester’s worth of free textbooks. We are having a contest to help spread the word about Textbook Revolt. Here is how the contest works.

Simply follow Textbook Revolt on Twitter and we’ll send you a message on Twitter with a link back to our site. You can re-tweet it to all of your friends. The student who refers the most people to our site through that link will win a semester’s worth of free textbooks (up to $250). We will post the winner here in the coments.

Don’t wait! We’ll be sending the message this weekend!

Interesting article on free textbooks

Jaisen — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:59:40 +0000

Here’s an interesting article on free textbooks: http://www.saycampuslife.com/2009/02/06/free-college-textbooks-fad-or-fabulous/

User activity now on the home page

Jaisen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:09:28 +0000

We just release a few small updates and wanted to let you know. When you log in and go to the home page you’ll see a list of recent activity. This includes your recent gives, receives, matches and blog posts. We’ll be making more updates down the road. Be sure to provide any feedback for additional features in the comments!

Updates now on home page

Follow TextbookRevolt on Twitter

Jaisen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:34:26 +0000

Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/textbookrevolt. We’ll soon begin twittering events to help you save money on college textbooks.

How can we help students save money on textbooks?

Jaisen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:59:13 +0000

As of today students have saved over $20,000 trading textbooks on Textbook Revolt. That’s great and all but we’d like to add a few zeros to the end of that number. We’re asking for your ideas and suggestions to help us go from $20k to $200k. Presuming you’re familiar with how Textbook Revolt works to save students money, what more can we do?

Got ideas?
Is there something you’ve thought of that we aren’t doing yet? Let us know! Leave a comment with as much or little detail as you wish. In the past students have suggested numerous improvements. As a result we created a Facebook application, made it easier for students without .edu accounts to sign up and made it easier and faster to both send and receive a book.

Help promote us on your campus
What better place to find college students than on campus? Set up a table with a laptop, pass out flyers or throw a party. No press is bad press, right? The great thing about getting fellow students using Textbook Revolt is that the likelihood of getting matches increases drastically. For example, students at the University of Cincinnati have had more matches than other students. Guess which college has the most registered users with Textbook Revolt? Yup, University of Cincinnati.

Don’t speak english?
While the majority of our users are based in the US, we were surprised to see so many students from other countries. Unfortunately, we don’t speak any other language fluently enough to translate the site ourselves. Let us know in the comments if you speak a different language and are passionate about helping yourself and students around you save money.

Anything we forgot
If you want to help in a way we haven’t mentioned or thought of then we’d love to hear from you. We try to think of everything but we always seem to miss out on something here or there.

We’re finally blogging!

Jaisen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:04:23 +0000

This is the first of many blog posts. We’ve been very busy getting ready for some really exciting features we have planned for Textbook Revolt. Many of you remember us as Socialbib. While we were fond of that name we decided to change it to have a more clear and concise message about our goal - to save students money!

In the next coming weeks keep an eye out as we update you on some great stats of students saving money.