Mission Statement

Textbooks are a significant expense in the pursuit of post-secondary education. BooksForSchool.ca aims to help reduce the unnecessary expenses incurred to post-secondary students by:

- Providing equal opportunity for all students across Canada to exchange textbooks
- Encouraging better use of our resources by recycling valuable textbooks
- Facilitating the easy exchange of textbooks
- Creating a social network for students across the country
- Connecting students based on their courses taken
- Saving unnecessary costs

 

About BooksForSchool.ca

BooksForSchool.ca is an online portal which provides students with a national marketplace to buy, sell and trade their used textbooks as well as purchase new textbooks at highly discounted rates. BooksForSchool.ca uniquely combines social networking with buying and selling used textbooks.

BooksForSchool.ca makes it extremely easy for students to add their used textbooks to the web site, requiring only an ISBN number to list a textbook. BooksForSchool.ca is able to automatically get the remaining book details. By taking the work out of finding prospective buyers and sellers of used textbooks, students can spend their time on more important things such as their education. Students are then able to arrange a mutual exchange of money and textbooks on their own time.

By working together and using the services offered by BooksForSchool.ca, students can save money, retain their past investments on books, as well as get advice, help, and resources from fellow peers in similar situations.

 

Media Coverage

Members of the press may direct inquires to press@booksforschool.ca

• Websites now rival school bookstores
The Toronto Star

"The York University Bookstores will buy back textbooks for about half of the original selling price. It then resells them, usually for about 75 per cent of the cost of a new book. To qualify for a buy-back, the book has to be on a course offered this year at York."..."He [Lawson Hennick] and friends Mike and Paul Levine, students at Ryerson and York, respectively, have started an online book swap site called BooksForSchool.ca."

• University of Alberta
Web site offers students a chance to save big on costly textbooks

"After doling out thousands of dollars for a university education, the last thing students want to do is spend hundreds more on textbooks. One Web site, booksforschool.ca, is offering students the chance to cut back on textbook costs..."

• Pulse24 (Video link)
It's the first lesson every student learns at university or college: education isn't cheap

"...booksforschool.ca - an Internet site designed to allow students to buy or exchange used textbooks all across the country - and save a small fortune in the process."

• Globe And Mail
BooksForSchool.ca aims to cut education costs

"Tired of paying the high prices of school textbooks, a group of Toronto university students has taken the idea of the book exchange on-line."

• CTV News
BooksForSchool.ca aims to cut education costs

"BooksForSchool.ca allows students to determine the price of textbooks without the added expense of the middleman."

• McGill Tribune
Student-run web service helps peers save money

"Shelling out hundreds of dollars for new textbooks is no longer the only option for students, thanks to Web-based services like BooksForSchool.ca. The site enables students from across Canada to buy and sell their used textbooks for much better prices than their campus bookstores offer."

• Epoch Times
Buys and sells two be generous study textbooks the good destination

"Sbooksforschool.ca is one free Canadian nationwide textbook service website, it provided one for the university and institute's students buys, sells or exchanges two textbooks the platforms. This website provided the entire Canadian possible customer or the seller for the students two textbooks. One website user states, booksforschool.ca may find another website member's two textbooks for the user, it also the member and other members which sold these need the book relates in one, enabled them in bought and sold when their textbook to obtain the best price." (Translated)

• andPOP.com
Students Launch Canada's First 'Textbook Exchange Through Social Networking' Web Site

"Motivated by concern over the high cost of education, rising tuitions, living expenses and onerous textbook fees, student developers were anxious to find creative ways to manage the accumulating student debt load."

• Hamilton Mountain News
Get Used textbooks online

"BooksForSchool.ca combined textbook swapping with social networking, enabling students to decrease their expenses and make it easier to buy and sell new and used textbooks."

• McMaster Daily News
McMaster In The News

"university students are turning to online exchange services to get more when selling and buying used textbooks. Websites like BooksForSchool.ca and internal university sites such as McMaster University's book swap site, directly connects students."

• York Region Community News
Website helps students find used textbooks

"Thornhill students have launched the first Canadian Internet website designed to take the bite out of buying university and college textbooks, some of which, they say, can cost $300 new..."

• The Lexicon
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover

"...quite a few people who have personally benefited from the service. It feels good to know we're helping other people..."

• The Reporter
Books 'R Us

"Using the advanced search engine students can find the book(s) they are looking for within seconds. Personalized bookstores allow members to give out a web address where all their books are listed..."

 

Members of the press may direct inquires to press@booksforschool.ca