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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. [7] In 2013, Textbookrental.ca raised $415,000 of seed funding, mainly from Seek Capital, to expand its business. [8]
BookScouter.com is a comparison shopping website that helps buy, sell, and rent textbooks and used books online. [2] The website compares offers and prices from 30 booksellers and buyback vendors in the US and suggests the most fitting place to purchase or sell a given book. [3] The website is mainly used by college students. [4]
StudySoup is an online peer-to-peer learning marketplace [5] [13] [11] [8] that allows students to sell [9] and purchase class notes and study guides. [ 1 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The sellers or Elite Notetakers [ 5 ] have to undertake a training [ 9 ] [ 15 ] to understand the type of materials to be provided and its frequency.
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In 2001, shortly after their graduation from the University of Notre Dame, Better World Books founders Christopher Fuchs, Xavier Helgesen and Jeff Kurtzman sold their used college textbooks online. [5] [6] [7] The three then formulated a business plan using their experience selling books online.
Southwestern Advantage (formerly known as Southwestern Company), is an education material sales company based in Nashville, TN.The privately owned company recruits college and university students as independent contractors to sell educational books, apps, and website subscriptions door-to-door using direct selling methods.
In 2013, Follett was described as a $2.7 billion, privately held company serving 70,000 early childhood, primary and secondary schools, and more than 1,000 college campuses. [26] It employed approximately 15,000 associates throughout the United States, Canada and other parts of the world. [27] [28] In 2013, Follett laid off 570 bookstore ...
In February 2017, Barnes & Noble Education had acquired MBS Textbook Exchange, a major textbook distributor based in Columbia, Missouri, for $174.2 million in cash. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] By December 2018, Barnes & Noble Education had operated or managed 773 campus bookstores under contracts. [ 17 ]