About Us
What started as SlugBooks is now SlugLabs: a collection of web apps that aim to help college students have better online shopping experiences! Read more about our team at the SlugLabs website! Our current online shopping apps include:
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The SlugBooks StoryIn 1996, a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz founded Slug Books Co-op. Slug Books was a student-run cooperative committed to saving students money on textbooks by providing a guaranteed cheaper alternative to the campus bookstore. Just one year earlier, Amazon.com was founded, based upon the idea that people could save money by moving the entire book marketplace to the internet. Both Amazon and Slug Books Co-op accomplished what they set out to do, but unfortunately, in 2006 the co-op could no longer compete with the Amazon's and eBay's of the world and closed its doors. A UC Santa Cruz student and former Slug Books Co-op employee, David Miller attempted a different approach toward the same goal - instead of competing with cheaper internet resellers, a more useful cost-saving service in the radically evolved textbook market would be to partner with the same vendors that likely put the co-op out of business. Inspired by the spirit of the defunct co-op, SlugBooks.com was launched in 2008. By aggregating all of the information and purchasing options in one place, SlugBooks provides students with an incredibly powerful savings tool. The SlugBooks service has expanded significantly from its humble beginnings at UC Santa Cruz and now serves most of the largest universities in America. While SlugBooks' information offering has increased, at its core is the same simple goal: save you money on your textbooks. |
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