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Stephen Carr Colin Walsh Julian Brooks Ryan Murphy Noam Ben-Avi

The Book Barter

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The Book Barter. Stephen Carr Colin Walsh Julian Brooks Ryan Murphy Noam Ben-Avi. The Textbook Dilemma. BOOKSTORE. ONLINE VENDORS. Extremely time efficient & reliable Awful pricing Buying from Selling to. Amazon, Chegg, etc Very fair, competitive price Time inefficient. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Stephen CarrColin WalshJulian BrooksRyan MurphyNoam Ben-Avi

BOOKSTORE ONLINE VENDORS

Extremely time efficient & reliable

Awful pricing Buying from Selling to

Amazon, Chegg, etc Very fair, competitive

price Time inefficient

Bookstore:- New: $142 - Used: $112- Buyback : $38 (Not

attractive to sell)Amazon :- New: $98- Used: $77Chegg - New: $130- Rent: $55SUPost (Cheapest price option)- Used: $53 (Less then renting

from chegg)

Bookstore:- New: $73 (for 1/3 of the

textbook) - Used: Not offeredAmazon :- New: $160- Used: $130Chegg - New: $240- Rent: $76 (need to rent

three times to complete the physics 40 series)

SUPost (Cheapest price option)- Used: $75 (Less then renting

from chegg)

Bookstore:- New: $128 Amazon :- New: $100- Used: $88Chegg - New: $86- Rent: $35.4 (but need for

two quarters)SUPost (Cheapest price

option)- Used: $68 (Less then renting

from Chegg for two quarters)

Further considerations:- Buying used is the only way to acquire

cheaper course readers- Selling you will get a better offer than the

bookstore- No need to deal with shipping and you

can physically check out the books condition before deciding to buy it.

Integration into facebook makes acquiring early adopters and crossing the chasm much easier.

Using facebook integration means access to friends lists, allowing users to buy and sell to people they would feel comfortable interacting with.

There will be listings to cheapest options from other online stores available for all texts, thus making sure that people post a cheap and fair price.

No inventory => low initial costs

Referral Fees: From the postings to online textbook sites

Advertisement Fees: As with most websites, advertisement will be a great source of revenue.

The site is scalable to all universities.