For Immediate Release RateMyProfessors.com and SwitchTextbooks.com Announce Strategic Partnership
Synergies between businesses provide students with unmatched value.
Baltimore, Maryland: August 24, 2005 – Patrick Nagle and Will DeSantis, founders of SwitchTextbooks.com, announced today the formation of a strategic partnership with their newly acquired company, RateMyProfessors.com. After a year of negotiations, RateMyProfessors.com will now be operated in a cooperative effort with SwitchTextbooks.com. The strategic partnership is focused to provide the student body with superior value and savings.
The nationwide recognition of RateMyProfessors.com provides a significantly greater network reach to sister company, SwitchTextbooks.com. RateMyProfessors.com will continue to be a free service while additionally offering students the ability to legally switch textbooks through a secure online network.
“An idea is one thing. An idea associated with a plan, which includes a network of approximately 7,000,000 college students is another,” exclaimed Patrick Nagle, co-founder and CEO – SwitchTextbooks.com, COO -RateMyProfessors.com. “Our service eliminates the routinely incurred financial headache students experience while purchasing textbooks. Our service will save students hundreds of dollars per semester.”
“The strategic alignment between the two companies is substantial,” added Will DeSantis, President – RateMyProfessors.com and COO- SwitchTextbooks.com. “It is important that the student body recognize that we are on their side. As former college students, we understand the value of a dollar; therefore, RateMyProfessors.com will continue to be a free service. Likewise, SwitchTextbooks.com is aimed at saving students time and money.”
“The SwitchTextbooks.com investment in RateMyProfessors.com means student users will continue to receive up-to-the-minute professor rating information and gain the added benefit of access to SwitchTextbook.com’s cutting-edge used-textbook network,” said John Swapceinski, founder -RateMyProfessors.com.
About SwitchTextbooks.com
Switch Textbooks, Inc. has offices located in Baltimore, Maryland. SwitchTextbooks.com was launched with an understanding that many publishing companies and school bookstores routinely exploit college students. The SwitchTextbooks.com service provides students the ability to legally switch textbooks through a secure online network.
About RateMyProfessors.com
RateMyProfessors.com, America’s largest collection of college professor ratings (3,800,000), provides an automated system for quickly researching and rating over 570,000 professors from colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada. Its website is http://www.ratemyprofessors.com.
Contact:
Jennifer L. Sinclair Public Relations Director | Switch Textbooks, Inc.Baltimore, MD 21204 Phone: 410.832.2740 www.switchtextbooks.com [email protected]
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