Project B: Selling Used Books and The Web
Overview
Publishers and college bookstores make a lot of money reselling used books. At some colleges,
students use bulletin boards to post ads so they can sell their used books directly to a student.
Typically, the seller can get more money through a direct sale than selling it back to the book
store. In addition, the buyer usually pays less through a direct sale than buying a used book from
the bookstore.
Have you ever bought a used book directly from another student or sold a used book to a
fellow student? How did you find each other? Share your experience with the class.
When a new edition of a text book is published, the publisher will refuse to sell the old edition.
Thus, professors must adopt the new edition. However, many professors would be content to use
the old edition for several years, especially in courses where the material doesn’t change.
Students and professors alike could benefit from a formal system that facilitates the direct sale of
used books
There are several different traditional ways to facilitate person to person sale of used books?
What are they?
There are several ways to do it over the Internet. What are those ways?
Take a moment to introduce yourself to your neighbor, and try to come up with a list of
traditional and technological ways to facilitate person to person sale of used books?
Ways
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