About: SwoopThat.com

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SwoopThat.com was an online textbook price comparison service. It was based in San Diego, California, it specialized in college textbooks but includes high school textbooks as well. The company's search engine lets students input their class schedules, see all the required textbooks for those schedules, and find the cheapest online sources of those books. The search engine also includes a textbook exchange feature through which students can buy and sell books from other students. The website also includes a textbook buyback platform through which students can sell their textbooks back to online vendors. SwoopThat has been featured in The New York Times, on the website of the Today Show, on the website of Computerworld magazine, and the weblog lifehacker.com.

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  • SwoopThat.com was an online textbook price comparison service. It was based in San Diego, California, it specialized in college textbooks but includes high school textbooks as well. The company's search engine lets students input their class schedules, see all the required textbooks for those schedules, and find the cheapest online sources of those books. The search engine also includes a textbook exchange feature through which students can buy and sell books from other students. The website also includes a textbook buyback platform through which students can sell their textbooks back to online vendors. SwoopThat has been featured in The New York Times, on the website of the Today Show, on the website of Computerworld magazine, and the weblog lifehacker.com. (en)
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  • Price comparison service, online textbook price comparison (en)
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  • Jonathan Simkin , Kevin King , Benjamin Carson (en)
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  • SwoopThat.com was an online textbook price comparison service. It was based in San Diego, California, it specialized in college textbooks but includes high school textbooks as well. The company's search engine lets students input their class schedules, see all the required textbooks for those schedules, and find the cheapest online sources of those books. The search engine also includes a textbook exchange feature through which students can buy and sell books from other students. The website also includes a textbook buyback platform through which students can sell their textbooks back to online vendors. SwoopThat has been featured in The New York Times, on the website of the Today Show, on the website of Computerworld magazine, and the weblog lifehacker.com. (en)
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  • SwoopThat, LLC. (en)
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