My uncle has been talking to me about the rising cost of textbooks and how they can cost close to $1000 a year now. While buying them second hand can help save some money, my little head started to think, "wouldn't it be great if there was an easy way to be able to get college textbooks for free?" I babbled this to my uncle (still working on this talking thing and see it as highly over-rated when I get all these smiles when I babble) and he said he'd look into it to see if there was anything like that. Today he came back with a answer...
There is a new website called Freeload Press that offers college textbooks for free download in e-book form in exchange for advertising. Students (or even little babies like me if I could get the computer key thing down) can take a 5 minute survey and then download a PDF file of the textbook which can be stored on a computer and printed out if need be. The ebook textbook may also display ads to help pay for offering it for free.
The site is still small, but they are hoping to have 250,000 free textbooks in their inventory by next year. It sounds like a good idea to me. That would mean $1000 a year less out of my pocket that I can save for other things and even at this early age, that is a great deal in my opinion...
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