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Renting books
Consider the situation: Student’s receive reading lists of fifty books to read for an assignment. Their local University library has five of each book, and there’s two hundred plus students on the course. Worse than this, but these books are needed by the people on the second year of the course too. So ultimately we have even less an amount of books for these student’s to borrow for their assignments.
Why not have a de-centralised rental system that competes directly with these libraries? Even if you go to your university library, city library and local library – there’s still not enough to go through everyone. Put it online and deliver books straight to those student’s homes for a fee, it doesn’t even have to be directly to a student’s home: just deliver it to the university and have them pick it up there.
It could easily be per book, per month or per student term. Better yet, don’t aim directly at student’s and just have a student plan that student’s can actually afford.
I’m not talking eBooks, but the real thing you hold in your hand and can scan copies of for references. You’re solving the national university problem based around the lack of books, and you’re going to have casual readers that want a book or two a month as well. The market would be completely begging for this solution.
The option to buy could be implemented if needed and you could even let people send in their own books to increase your library, giving them credit or money for doing so. Especially when we’re talking old educational books some students don’t need to own after leaving university.
Get it done Amazon.
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