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August 15, 2011

Amazon App Helps Facilitate Back-to-School Rush

By Carrie Schmelkin, TMCnet Web Editor


No one will soon forget the physical (and oftentimes mental) pain associated with making a mad rush to the college bookstore to sift through rows and rows of books to purchase dozens of 30-pound books. Then came the real fun – having to schlep all those books back to the dorm. However, thanks to Amazon, students can kiss away sore backs and arms as the company has introduced a new iPhone (News - Alert) app, specifically designed to address this problem.


The Amazon Student app boasts a variety of coed-friendly features such as instant price checks and free two-day shipping. For example, instead of trying to beat the hordes of people in the bookstore, college students can now secure the semester's reading material right from their iOS devices and have them delivered to their doors.

The app allows students to scan barcodes, check prices and compare prices on textbooks and everything else they buy. Moreover, kids can then turn their used stuff into Amazon.com (News - Alert) Gift Cards. Students simply have to scan their textbooks, games, movies, or gadgets that they no longer use and then they can see the trade-in value for any eligible item. According to a TechCrunch article, Amazon’s latest app is an extension of Amazon’s “Textbook Buyback” program. There are now nearly 1 million books eligible for buyback and students can receive up to 70 percent back when trading them in through this service, according to Amazon.

Additionally, the app promises free two-day shipping for six months with Amazon Prime shipping benefits.

The app is free and available for iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Carrie Schmelkin is a Web Editor for TMCnet. Previously, she worked as Assistant Editor at the New Canaan Advertiser, a 102-year-old weekly newspaper, covering news and enhancing the publication's social media initiatives. Carrie holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and a bachelor's degree in English from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Jamie Epstein


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