Thinking back on my “college” years (less then a year ago), I remember how much Books cost and how I hardly used them. I know it was not until second semester sophomore year that I bought a textbook online. Most of the books for my classes had like a billion editions and knowing you need the latest edition to do the homework that will be graded, it was almost worth it. So I did buy a lot of my books online because the $10 savings at the time seemed worth it. When it came to the end of the semester for the bookstore to “buy back booksâ€, I would sell them my “book I bought online†and not lose as much as if I bought it from them.
While surfing the world wide web, I found chegg a place to buy/sell your textbooks. Chegg was formed due to university bookstore policies of buying used books back at a fraction of the cost and reselling them used at a large markup. Chegg is for students by students.
This problem of books and buy/sell/trade should make everyone think, why not make it own source. Imagine a world where the professor would “write a book” and use his class to revise it, make it online/FREE and make a small fraction for a print version. This would create a community and build knowledge rather then making millions selling 10000 revisions of books just to “donate” your projects to charity.
Since we are on the topic of books, I want to give a shout out to my buddy Jeremy. Catamount Corner is a forum/ebay/portal for UVM students to buy/sell/trade anything. Basically this is a site for students to post apartments, textbooks, clothes, whatever. Facebook can only link you so much, you need to be able to “announce things like, your CS208 books is for sale”.
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Yo bro, I just checked out Chegg and I had nothing to say other than what you said.
Also, you know anything about this hatch thing thats happening?
“This problem of books and buy/sell/trade should make everyone think, why not make it own source. Imagine a world where the professor would “write a book†and use his class to revise it, make it online/FREE and make a small fraction for a print version. This would create a community and build knowledge rather then making millions selling 10000 revisions of books just to “donate†your projects to charity.”