I hated selling textbooks. The bookstore cheated students, taking more and more money every semester. I wanted to sell my textbooks for good prices online, but I didn’t want to ship my books; going to the post office, packing my books in boxes… it was a pain.

I started talking with my brother about a new kind of website: a classifieds site to help students exchange books with friends on campus. If we all bought books on campus, we wouldn’t have to ship anything, so it’d cost us less On this new website, there’d be no shipping, no bookstore, and no hidden fees.

I wrote up a business plan and put all my savings into hiring a team to help build Local Textbook. I found a great CFO, David Steinberg, who helps keep us on track, and I found two great new marketers.

We’ve been working on this for a year now. It took a lot of hard work to make it this far, but it’s all worth it. We’re excited to open Local Textbook up to the world this semester.

Welcome to Local Textbook!

Evan Tann, CEO

David Steinberg, CFO – (Picture coming soon)

Christina Patterson, Director of Marketing

Mark Thayer, Director of Public Relations