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Downloaded ‘E-Textbooks’ Saved Students Over $1 Million Last Year

by Pat Coate | July 16, 2007
"We have a number of advertisers that have been interested in participating this coming academic year who have found value in this program."
- Jason Bakker, Campus Media Group marketing director

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Now that summer break is in full swing, media agencies are building back-to-school efforts with a new kind of media in their mix -- free college textbooks.

During the 2006/2007 academic year, students from more than 1,700 colleges and universities have completed the easy registration at http://www.freeloadpress.com and downloaded textbooks that included national advertising display ads imbedded in the PDFs of each chapter.

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