I've been throwing around this idea for a while and I want to know if anyone would use it.

I work for an online retailer of used college textbooks. If you had the option to freely sign up to a forum or facebook group or twitter feed or something similar when you bought your books so that you could talk to other students that bought theirs, would you use it? there might be a paid student in the forum or group to answer questions ( but not to violate academic integrity rules).

It seems like an ok idea, but I have no clue if anyone would sign up.

5/11/2009 1:09:57 PM

ok, your first question: What's the point exactly? talk to other students that bought the same kind of used text book you did? I don't really get the point of this. How is it different than the book exchange on here (used to be) or the study hall forum?

even for non-textbooks i only see a limited application for this as other sites already exist that facilitate this

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM. Reason : s]

5/11/2009 1:35:20 PM

^ thanks for the feedback.

the point would be to discuss problems in the book, or the subject matter itself. We have Tww and studyhall, but there isn't a guarantee that someone with the same text will be on it to answer the questions, and some schools don't have their TWW.

5/11/2009 1:44:14 PM

it would be a little different if you could involve all universities. You could start off with the top 100 textbooks off of amazon or since you work for an online wholesaler, you could probably pull their top titles since universities use the same textbooks. Customs and edition changes would make it a little more difficult, but that's a start. Once it gets off the ground, it's not a bad idea...but supplying the initial information on it so that it will be a useful reference will be the hardest part.

5/12/2009 10:11:49 AM