Buying textbooks at a cheaper cost than what a school's bookstore is offering them can be tedious, at the least, so Texts.com has come up with a tool to simplify the process.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the website launched the Google Chrome add-on "Occupy the Bookstore," which compares textbook prices from major retailers to resale sites like Amazon, Chegg and more. The new tool has even seen a notice of potential legal action from Follett Higher Education Group if the tool continues to undermine their bookstore.

Texts.com founders Peter Frank and Ben Halpern opened a discussion on Occupy the Bookstore on Reddit last Friday. Before that, Frank told the Journal, the add-on was downloaded some 200 times despite being made available in April. Since, it has seen more than 15,000 downloads.

Frank said the add-on takes retail prices from college textbook stores under Follet, Barnes and Noble and Nebraska Book Company and finds better prices elsewhere on the Internet. Follet's note to the Texts.com people has reportedly gone unanswered, Frank told the Journal. The company has apparently not contacted Frank or Halpern since and did not publicly comment on the matter.

The Occupy the Bookstore creators have said in their Reddit thread the response to the add-on has generated "overwhelming and awesome amount of support and interest." Many students obtain their book list as early as possible in order to seek out the best prices possible anyway, so the Occupy the Bookstore tool is simply saving them a step.

"The object of intellectual property rights is emphatically not to restrict competition," Andrew Bridges, a copyright law expert and partner at Fenwick and West, told the Journal. "What's clear is that what this is really about is that one side is enabling comparisons in order to promote competition.

"And somebody really doesn't like that competition."