CampusBookRentals.com Cites Impressive Growth as Popularity of Textbook Rentals Rise.

CampusBookRentals.com today cited several significant growth milestones, including the transfer of its burgeoning business into a new 57,000-square-foot headquarters in Ogden, Utah (see also CampusBookRentals.com).

CampusBookRentals.com now employs 83 people, up from 35 last August. The company has plans to hire more employees in the coming months to handle the growing demand for textbook rentals that already reach over 5,600 college campuses nationwide. In addition, CampusBookRentals.com was recently named as one of MountainWest Capital Network's "2010 Utah Emerging Elite".

In 2007, Martin, then a Master's student, observed that many students struggled to afford the required textbooks for their courses. To help solve this problem, he launched CampusBookRentals.com as a pilot enterprise at Weber State University, a northern Utah school. Martin's idea quickly caught on with its savings of 50 percent or more for cash-strapped students like himself.

"Starting in my basement in 2007, we then moved into my garage as the demand for book rentals grew. In 2009, we moved into our first warehouse. We're now in our fourth space in two years," Martin said, attributing CampusBookRentals.com's phenomenal growth to timing, finding a previously non-existent niche market, and a talented team.

"Only a year after we formed the company the economy became unstable, causing many working professionals to go back to school. Presenting these students with the option to rent their books and save significant money found great appeal," Martin added. "In addition, because of companies like Netflix, the idea of renting through the Internet had become commonplace."

For more information on CampusBookRentals.com, visit http://www.campusbookrentals.com. For news, tips, and promotions, follow the company on Twitter at http://twitter.com/textbookrentals and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/CampusBookRentals. About CampusBookRentals.com CampusBookRentals.com serves a growing number of customers on more than 5,600 college campuses each semester. Students simply register online and search for a textbook by ISBN number, title, author or keyword; select their book and appropriate rental period (semester, quarter, summer, etc.); and take advantage of free shipping both to and from their house. . For every book rented, CampusBookRentals.com donates a portion of its proceeds to Operation Smile, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing cleft lip correction surgeries for children with a goal of providing 1,000 surgeries in 2011 alone.

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