Business idea...college textbooks!

[smokinghole]

Goddamn $496 for books this semester. I'm not even into the big money books either and half of them are not new books. I even got one that's normally $110 for $5.70. I can't wait till I'm in the biotech classes and stuff beyond general science classes.....:hammersma

 

[dpricenator]

I had several professor who wrote their own text books, and then would release a new version every 2 years so you could never buy a used book for a decent price.

 

[stogies&hoagies]

Renting books is popular here this semester. Don't know the details, just know that I've seen the offer to rent rather than buy.

 

[twenty5]

My girlfriend was thinking about renting her books this semester but decided against it.

 

[cvm4]

Really, I'd explore all options.


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[Tony Large]

Hell you could even check the digital book option. Check to see what's available in the digital market and get an iPad, nook, or whatever is going to work with them

 

[smokemifugotem]

Need to come up with a company that does nothing but scans texts books and places them online. Download them for under $9.99. I know that the authors would never allow it...but I bet there is some sort of loop hole that a chunk of money and a good lawyer could help you ward them off for the next 20 years or so. Then file bankruptcy. Not the most ethically sound idea...but they have been raping us all for years....

Figure you give a lawyer 250k...$10 a book...2.5 million downloads...probably 10 books per student....3860 colleges in US alone...average 5000 kids in each college (very loose average) = 19 million kids. You would just need about 8 percent of them to buy one book...just one semester....plus you would have to deduct the 10% you owe me for the idea...

 

[smokinghole]

Dude I still have a desk top computer. Think I'm kicking around with a Ipad or kindle thing?

I saw something about renting but the damn school let me know what books I needed so late. I basically had to go on amazon to order since there's 10,000 dickheads selling books on there and i'll get them in a week.

 

[smokemifugotem]

P.S. I know that there are already features like this...but I saw do em all

 

[twenty5]

There were a couple semesters of Engineering that ran me almost a grand in books. Feels so good when you go to return them and they only accept 20% of them and only pay you 20% of what you paid.

 

[danthebugman]

Our college had a rental program on textbooks, but still had to buy some of them and lab books also. I usually got them on Amazon for way cheaper than the book store. My beef was that I would spend money to rent the books and then most of the time we might refer to them once or twice a semester :argh:. The scanned idea sounds pretty cool, but without a laptop or ipad the usability of something like that really isn't ideal.

Dan

 

[stogies&hoagies]

I forgot to mention, some courses here are set up for using a Kindle. It's more of an experiment really. Just testing to see if it's possible. I did not hear how it worked out last year.

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

My girlfriend was thinking about renting her books this semester but decided against it.

Justin, just curious, why did Kris decide not to rent?

 

[.jacob]

Buy online, half.com, amazon.com, abe books, books on campus, etc.