BookScouter

BookScouter.com

BookScouter.com

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BookScouter.com is a comparison shopping website that helps buy, sell, and rent textbooks and used books online.[2] The website compares offers and prices from 30 booksellers and buyback vendors in the US and suggests the most fitting place to purchase or sell a given book.[3] The website is mainly used by college students.[4]

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History

BookScouter was founded in 2007 by Brandon Checketts.[5][6][7] Checketts developed this price-comparison website to help students and recent graduates sell their used college books.[8] He first came up with this idea when he heard about how his wife's friend was selling her old college books to pay off her student loans.[9][10] Checketts created a working prototype that simplified and expedited the process by comparing prices from seven vendors at a time. The project was well-received, and Checketts kept growing it as a business.[11]

Business model

BookScouter's price comparison engine aggregates data from partnering vendors and their offers on a single book, identified by its unique ISBN.[12] BookScouter neither buys books directly from sellers nor sets the prices.[13] All the offers available on the website are set by vendors.[14]

BookScouter.com is an Amazon associate and earns commissions from qualifying purchases. The platform also offers Pro Tools for high-volume booksellers on a monthly subscription basis.[15] Pro Tools include bulk ISBN lookup, deals finder, historical price lookup, and recently searched high-value books identifier.[16]

Vendors and bookstores

BookScouter compares prices from AbeBooks, Amazon.com, ValoreBooks.com, Chegg.com, Powells.com, ThriftBooks, Booksrun.com, and other vendors and bookstores.[17]

Mobile

BookScouter App, available on iOS and Android, helps scan ISBNs quickly and check prices for used books from multiple vendors.[18][19] The app is popular among small book businesses and independent resellers.[20][21]

Other activities

BookScouter offers a quarterly scholarship of $500 for any enrolled student in the US.[22] This scholarship should be used towards acquiring textbooks and aims at easing students’ financial expenses.[23][24]

From 2019 to 2020, BookScouter produced The Studentpreneur Show — a podcast about student-run businesses and startups.[25] In each podcast episode, a guest tells about their experiences of founding and running companies while studying at college.[25]

See also

References

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