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University Textbook Exchange Software

Posted by michael on from the cut-out-the-middleman dept.

PageMap writes "With the textbook-buying season upon us, many universities and student organizations are attempting to combat the on-campus bookstore's overcharging by starting up their own grassroots book exchange efforts. The problem is the seeming lack of available web-based software to facilitate an efficient book exchange. Is there such a thing as free web-based software made for this type of use?"

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  1. Are you talking legally or illegally? by cliffy2000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At my school, we kept PDFs of the student solutions manuals on the school network. This was probably a violation of copyright law, but it's an effective countermeasure to being charged $40 for a tiny paperback book.

  2. Price gouging on-campus bookstore by AsmordeanX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my first two years I faithfully bought my books from either the campus bookstore or the student union run bookstore (student's consign their books)

    Then I discovered Chapters (Maybe Amazon is the same) would order almost anything. Of course there was a week or two waiting period but when you are talking $63.50 versus $118.95 it is worth it.

    So if your prof. insists on using new books or has to have the latest edition, don't forget book stores. Even smaller ones can sometimes order in texts, you just have to pay in advance because they can't sell it to normal people if you don't buy.