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DID YOU KNOW

The first digital library, the Project Gutenburg, was founded in 1971. It continues to digitalise e-books to this day.

Pile of Books

About Us

Our Aim – To help students save money by studying smarter

Textbooks are an integral and important part of your learning at University.

Textbooks are required reading on most, if not all courses, helping to navigate unfamiliar topics and subjects. They complement your lectures, seminars and journal articles.

However, textbooks can be expensive and alongside other outgoings from your budget, its easy to think “I will do without” or “Let me get a second hand book”. This is not a great situation, you’ve worked hard to get this far, you shouldn’t have to compromise your education using older textbooks.

With Reference Tree, you don’t need to make this compromise.

Reference Tree saves you money through enabling you to rent your textbooks by chapter, online.

How does it work?

The rental model means that we can give you a wider choice of books, at a lower cost than if we were just selling chapters or textbooks. You can save up to 40% of the cost of the textbooks through this model.

You choose whether you want chapters, groups of chapters or the whole book, each option is available for six months or twelve months.

Accessing your textbooks by chapter enables you to

  • Save (even more) money
  • Study what you want when you want to
  • Widen your understanding of a topic through different view points
  • Easily read up on material before taking a lecture or a new course
  • Avoid looking sadly at the books you bought at the start of term but never touched!

Reference Tree is all online, no waiting for your books and chapters to arrive.

Who are we?

Reference Tree was started by Amil Tolia in January 2009, having looked back at his university days, wishing there was a service like this he approached other former and current students. Finding it appealed to students, he approached Publishers with the model. Following discussions with students and Publishers over the course of 2009, he found that there was appetite for this type of service on both sides of the market.

The core team of Reference Tree are

Amil Tolia (Founder and CEO)

Alistair Jackman (Lead Developer)

Martin Marlow (Strategic Support)

Aviva Weinstein (Publisher Relations)

Louise Weale (Publisher Relations)

Sara Killingworth (Marketing)

(Hint for you: Always hire people smarter than you – It works for Amil!)

For more information email us on info[at]reference [-]  tree[.c]om

That’s About Us, so click here to Sign Up Today!

  • Nikepeach

    hi, I just joined this amazing and brilliant web-site. I am studying design and branding at Brunel university and I did not find the course under the listed ones. I will be happy to see my course on the list as well..MA. Design and Branding..thank you..:)

  • Anonymous

    Hi –

    Thank you for your kind words…please feel free to email me on amiltolia(at)reference(-)tree(dot)com with any suggestions or thoughts on how we can improve the site…

    It would be great to know how we can improve to help support your studies further

    Thanks

    Amil
    (Founder – Reference Tree)

  • Zahid

    Hi, I just came heard about your site/resource through random internet searching, I have to Congratulate you and your team for an excellent Idea. I really wish this resource was available and accepted throughout all Irish higher level education….. Thank you

  • Anonymous

     Hi Zahid,

    We are coming to Ireland soon – what subjects do you study, do you know any specific titles that we should get hold of?

    Let us know on info@refe:twitter rence-tree.com

    Thank you
    Amil

  • Anonymous

    something when wrong, our email address is info (at) reference-tree.com

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