Deborah Gray
Mt. Pleasant, MI (USA)
Role(s):
www.BookThief.com
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Location:
Mt. Pleasant
Industry:
Internet
Year Founded:
2007
Number Employees:
INVALID
Description:
A Textbook Black Market? (URL removed) Thinks So
Mount Pleasant, MI, November 26, 2007-
A national startup, (URL removed), hopes to upset the textbook market by forcing bookstores to compete based on price, locally. Once called a ‘broken market’ in a study commissioned by Congress, the used textbook market has had little competition for too long. Collectively, 18 states have current or pending legislation aimed at reducing textbook prices.
(URL removed) isn’t a real textbook black market of course, but the Web site hopes to give students a viable alternative to buying and selling textbooks at the campus bookstore. For the price of a download (99¢), students can list used textbooks on their campus; they pay nothing to search listings. There are over 3,200 colleges and universiti