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Once the semester is over, books are returned with a free return shipping label, [5] or in person at 11 depots. [ 6 ] The company also set up a service to buy back used books, [ 6 ] either by paying cash for books dropped off at a depot location near campus, by providing a free shipping label from the website to ship the books to the company.
Based on the rental method the book rental companies can be categorized into two subgroups: Book rental companies having a subscription-based models where a monthly or periodic subscription fee is charged and members can rent a number of books based on the subscription. Book rental companies taking a fraction of book cost as rent.
CampusBooks provides a free Buy vs. Rent price prediction tool. [5] [10] The tool employs a proprietary algorithm, which takes into account the depreciation of the book in question and estimates its buyback value in 6 months. [5] Based on the estimation, the website displays its recommendation for either buying or renting the book. [11]
For 24 hours during this promotion, readers can stock up on a large number of e-books for free. But Kindle offers free e-books all of the time. Simply search “Free books on Kindle” to find a ...
Users browse books online and have their choices home-delivered, rather than physically visiting a library to borrow a book. This e-commerce model is comparable to the video rental service provided Netflix. In 2009, online book rental was gaining popularity in India, with a number of websites offering free doorstep delivery for a small monthly fee.
ThriftBooks was founded in the summer of 2003 by Daryl Butcher and Jason Meyer. The two created software that organizes and lists thousands of book titles per day. [6] Since 2004, it has partnered with libraries, which provide unsorted books and get a share of the profits.
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Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]