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College Textbook Shopping Made Easy; World's Largest Retailer Launches College Bookstore at www.walmart.com

BRISBANE, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- It's an annual back-to-college ritual: going to the campus bookstore, searching shelves, sifting through stacks, standing in line with an armload of books .... But what if you could buy the books you need with less hassle, less cost and less time? Students are discovering they can do just that at a new bookstore -- Wal-Mart's online College Bookstore. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the College Bookstore at www.walmart.com includes more than 300,000 titles, saving students up to 30 percent off the list price. From study aids and encyclopedias to grad school guides and college textbooks, the online bookstore offers students an extraordinary variety of books to meet their curriculum needs. Subjects include architecture, art, history, literature and mathematics....

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