A Crowd Factory customer favorite for social media and ecommerce is Bookrenter.com and they are ending the summer with a bang!   The company that is #1 for renter college textbooks online is giving away $100,000 in free textbooks!  Want to find out more?  Click the image below.  The author of this blog post wishes to remain anonymous as not to admit my age, but I can tell you when I attended University…well the concept of Bookrenter would have been a blessing – but keep in mind we still had dial-up in our dorm rooms!

Check out the contest below, share with friends and claim your reward, just by entered I alone was given a $10 coupon!  You could get a $10, $25, $50, $100, $200 or even $500!  In a time when those we hope would be leading our economy might need some economics classes of their own, it’s great to see companies like Bookrenter not only doing their part, but doing it with social media!

Like most students, BookRenter founder Colin Barceloux was frustrated with the high cost of textbooks, paying over $500 each quarter while at Santa Clara University. To help pay for textbooks (and other necessities like beer, food, and clothes), he worked as a campus mailman, and noticed a large number of discarded textbooks around campus. There were even huge stacks of books on the bookstore’s “Zero Value Table,” containing books that the bookstore wouldn’t buy back. To Colin, something seemed wrong with the fact that a book’s value could drop from $100 to $0 in a few months.