eCampus Blog

Greetings all!   Our first ever eCampus.com home page model search ended yesterday at 12:00pm and I am excited to announce that our winner is 19 year old Alyssa from Irvine, California!

Check out the full results on our home page.

So the eCampus Home Page Model Search 2008 is in full swing and the submission phase is officially over.  We've narrowed the hundreds of entrants down to ten (you know who you are!) and pending all of the legal stuff, you should see the voting page go up in the next week or so.  Very exciting!  As always, keep tuned in to the blog and home page for any new or cool changes!

MSNBC posted a great article on how to be a smart shopper this textbook season.  I found tip #4 to be particularly interesting.

4. Check out CourseSmart. Five textbook publishers – Pearson, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education and Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group – have teamed up to make thousands of textbooks available in eBook format via CourseSmart.com. This site is continuing to add book titles all the time, and it’s worth a visit.

Did you know that we just signed a partnership with CourseSmart to offer thousands of eTextbooks via their website? Our eTextbook experience is seamlessly integrated into our shopping experience - making it easy for you to mix and match eTextbooks with traditional books, apparel, and more.

eCampus.com announces partnership with CourseSmart

 

Lexington, KY,   July, 15, 2008 – eCampus.com, one of America’s first online textbook retailers, proudly announces a groundbreaking partnership with digital textbook giant CourseSmart.  This partnership will give eCampus.com customers access to CourseSmart’s massive digital library of eTextbooks.  By partnering with CourseSmart, eCampus.com will be able to offer students an environmentally friendly opportunity to save money on textbooks.

eTextbooks are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to traditional textbooks for students seeking cheaper books and faster access to study materials. eTextbooks save students money by offering lower retail pricing through the elimination of the shipping, physical, and environmental costs associated with traditional textbooks. The partnership between eCampus.com and CourseSmart offers consumers the ability to obtain nearly instant access on an ever growing selection of eTextbooks.

“With over 4,000 of the best-selling textbooks available, CourseSmart provides a new choice to millions of college students who will now find that their assigned textbook is available as an eTextbook”, said Sean Devine CourseSmart CEO.  “Our partnership with eCampus helps support our goal of providing this choice to students wherever they are shopping for their course materials.”

eCampus.com CEO Matt Montgomery states, “We at eCampus.com are proud to be working with CourseSmart to provide quick easy access to the largest single collection of eTextbooks in existence. This is another in a long line of firsts for eCampus.com, dedicated to providing America’s students with the best variety of low-cost educational materials.  I believe that this partnership positions eCampus as the best stop for college students to find new, used, and now electronic textbooks”

CourseSmart eTextbooks through eCampus.com will be available by August 2008. By incorporating a simple, down to earth approach to purchasing and downloading, CourseSmart and eCampus.com have created the most natural eTextbook shopping experience on the Internet.

About eCampus

eCampus.com was established on July 2, 1999. Since then, eCampus.com has grown into a major online retailer for college and high school textbooks. eCampus.com’s mission is to provide the easiest, fastest, cheapest way for college and university students to buy textbooks and stuff. We think the Internet ought to be fun and that shopping for textbooks should be as fast and convenient as shopping for anything else on the Internet. We are making a personal commitment to every customer that eCampus.com will be the best source for everything they need. www.ecampus.com

About CourseSmart

CourseSmart LLC is a new venture founded and supported by five higher education textbook publishers. Our mission is to improve teaching and learning by providing instructors and students better exposure and access to digital course materials. CourseSmart brings together thousands of textbooks across hundreds of courses in an ebook format on a common platform. www.coursesmart.com

I had a brainstorm today.  We like people checking out our site.  You like free stuff.  If you have a blog or web site, link to our home page, ecampus.com and e-mail me with your information letting me know that the link is up.  I will then send you a $5 gift card in the mail.  No lie! I will also link to your web site or blog on this page (assuming that the content is appropriate!)

Note: The site that you link to has to be public facing.  That means no private facebook or myspace profiles.  It may take up to two weeks to recieve your gift card.  If you have any questions, let me know via comments!

Matthew Keegan over at saycampuslife.com posted a great article today about how to save money on school supplies.

Go check it out!

Hey guys!  As always, things are in the works.  You can now follow us on Twitter and Facebook.  Stop by and let us know whats up.

After weeks of in house preparation, the eCampus Home Page Model Search finally launched yesterday afternoon.  We have been super excited about this project for a while and hope to have a lot of great submissions.  Essentially, we are giving one of you (our loyal customers!) a chance to become the face of eCampus.com.  Included in your prize package is placement on our home page for an indetermined amount of time, a photo shoot with a professional photographer, and a digital copy of the professional pictures. Go ahead and check out the rules and details. 

Jason at eCampus here.

Just wanted to let you know that I am excited to be bringing you the official ecampus.com blog. Check back for coupon codes, exciting deals, deeply discounted books, and news about eCampus and our sister site, Biggerbooks.com!

For now, head over to eCampus.com to see our brand new personalized home page!