Akademos.com Launches TextbookX.com,
Announces Call for Partnerships

ITHACA, N.Y., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Akademos.com, a leading provider of educational resources serving the college market, has announced the launch of its new website, TextbookX.com. This program replaces the company's successful "Textbooksatcost" program that made its mark through significant discounts on college textbooks. "Like the earlier program, TextbookX will offer the same low prices on course materials that students and educators have come to rely on," said Brian Jacobs, President of Akademos.com. "With the new website, however, users will find a complete redesign that will make shopping easier and faster. And our visitors can look for innovative features that we will soon release as part of the site upgrade."

Akademos.com also announced a call for partnerships with companies that either address the higher education market or are seeking marketing access to it. Akademos.com has recently partnered with a number of companies and is open to new relations. "By providing a comprehensive range of new and used books for classrooms, reference, and general reading," said Jacobs, "Akademos can offer significant marketing capabilities for companies seeking to address the coveted college student demographic."

This venture comes on the heels of a serious downturn in the industry where a number of big players have either consolidated or closed their doors. "Akademos is proof that the online college book business is alive and well," said Jacobs. "We have managed to stay above the fray and we continue to grow rapidly."

A combination of low prices and a large selection of used textbooks accounts for the company's three-fold growth from one semester to another in the last two years. Akademos.com brought over 200,000 visitors last January to its websites and expects several times this number in the fall back-to-school season. "We can afford to provide such discounts because we have a streamlined operation and eliminated corporate overhead costs," explained Jacobs. "We also offer a range of higher education services to students, which make up the most wired segment of the population. TextbookX will build significantly on this achievement."

Akademos.com, LLC. was founded in April 1999 by Brian Jacobs, then a visiting professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Its mission is to use new distribution models and media to democratize and enhance the university educational opportunity by making instructional materials more accessible.

For more information, please contact marketing@akademos.com