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College textbooks are rising in price faster than college tuition, which itself is outpacing inflation.  Over the last thirty years, college textbook prices have increased by 812%.  This fact means that current college students should take every chance they can get to save money on buying books each semester.  Cool person in technology David Miller founded SlugBooks to help students in their quest for the best and lowest prices on their textbooks.  Many universities overcharge for textbooks in their bookstores because they know most students don’t have the time and information necessary to find better prices online or elsewhere.  Miller’s company SlugBooks takes the difficulty and time-consumption of textbook price hunting away with its online tools for finding good textbook prices.  Miller’s website lets students find the textbooks necessary for their classes and then searches the web to find the best deals available on those books.  Miller’s goal is to make it easy for students to find cheaper prices and spend the least amount possible on textbooks to help them save money for the semester but still got all the books that they need.  Whether someone is taking a class in Advanced Network Services or in Political Science 101, SlugBooks can help them find inexpensive alternatives to getting the necessary textbooks.

Miller founded SlugBooks in 2008 after attending the University of California at Santa Cruz.  He created the SlugBooks project as a spiritual successor to a student cooperative of the same name that existed in 1996 at his alma mater.  The original SlugBooks was a textbook reseller that aimed to provide students with a cheaper option for textbooks.  That model was not sustainable after many online retailers undercut textbooks prices even further and the original student cooperative closed down in 2006.  Miller acquired the rights to the name and brought SlugBooks back under his new vision two years later.  SlugBooks became a national company under Miller’s model as a textbook deals search engine and now helps students save money at thousands of institutions across the United States. Any of those students who need help using the search tools on Miller’s site can get help from a tech support company.

Miller was an employee of the original SlugBooks student cooperative at UC-Santa Cruz while he was still a student there.  His experience working for SlugBooks is what made him so passionate about reviving the brand and making it something bigger once he graduated.  Miller has turned what was once a small student organization into a national brand with his leadership.  It will be interesting to watch where he takes SlugBooks in the future.

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