The Benefits Of Online Books

Students are being robbed by their local bookstores that are supposed to supply students with the best option of textbooks for their classes

In order for Matthews and Avelino to help create a demand for their books, one must get into the mindset that demand is driven by price; therefore they may want to decrease or try to keep the price of their books lower than that of their competitors in order to increase the demand of their books and/or services. In order to decrease or keep their prices competitively low, they must think about their supplies. In supplying, the more books that they print, the lower the price they can get. However, since Secret Acres is a small business with very limited ability, they can only create the

Publishers have been able to drive up textbook prices because students 'have to buy whatever textbook they've been assigned,' says Nicole Allen, a program director for the Scholarly Publishing Academic Resources Coalition"(U.S. News). If the professors have the option to choose whatever book they want to teach out of, they could go to the discount bookstore and see what editions of books that they have and just assign students one of the books out of there. It would make it so much easier on the teachers and the students. The instructors would not have to deal with having to teach out of a

“Marketing Professors’ Perspectives on the Cost of College Textbooks: A Pilot Study” is a paper by Lawrence S. Silver, Robert E. Stevens of Southeastern Oklahoma State University and Kenneth E. Clow of University of Louisiana. It was published in the Journal of Education for Business Volume 87. The first half of the paper starts off by explaining why the cost of textbooks is an issue. They go on to explain different competitors’ textbook have in the marketplace today and how publishers are trying to appeal new customers through professors. The second half of the paper focuses on a study that was done by surveying random marketing professors in the United States. The survey contained questions asking about the pricing of textbooks and how they

Our company M320 developed an app facilitating sharing Textbooks and Notes based on the sharing economy. M320 app will allow students to share their textbooks and notes both virtually and shipping it to the person who orders it for the lesser cost. Our company goal is to minimize the cost of textbooks that each individual student has to spent. For example: The book originally cost $100, the person who wants the book will only have to pay 20% of the originally cost. Which in this case would be $20 plus shipping fees, which is much lower cost than the price of most book stores offer.

By looking at these examples in the bigger picture, the vicious cycle created by publishers becomes evident. Students find themselves forced to buy the books the professors assign, they must buy them new in order to get special access codes, and then they have difficulty selling the books back. Not to mention the fact that the release of newer editions can leave many students stuck with a book they do not want and more debt they cannot afford. This cycle created by publishers works by continuously finding new ways to charge students full price for textbooks while simultaneously finding ways to release newer editions on an almost semester-by-semester basis. The result: increased textbook prices and an increasing financial burden on students.

And students are forced to either wait for the books to be restocked ,or purchase their books online. when it comes to purchasing a book online is sometimes you can't find the right book you need, but if students are able to find the book, then students would have to wait another week to receive their books. Students that go through this problem in college are being affected by their schoolwork, and students fall behind on class assignments, homework, and study plans. This problem causes students to get a zero on all assignments, and there are projects that come from the book that are due in

Many textbooks that are currently being used in this present decade, whether in elementary schools, high schools, and/or colleges, are available online. For example, an online site called “eBooks.” The electronic reading device allows students to buy their textbooks on online at a cheaper price. You are able to purchase more than one textbook and it gives students the opportunity to buy books and read without the struggle. There are many websites out there that aid students and their wallets, but it is quite hard to find the specific book a student may need. Often times the textbook companies provide the textbooks online but provide a different edition. Even if the online textbooks required payment, it is not as highly priced as a hardcover textbook, just quite hard to find, if it is

In today’s day and age, it is common knowledge that students possess different learning styles than those of generations before them. In the essays by Marc Prensky “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” (2001) and “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part II: Do They Really Think Differently?” (2001) the author clearly argues a need to adapt to students modern learning styles. In Lotta Larson’s “The Learning Potential of e-Books” (2015) Larson also argues the clear benefits of eLearning for today’s students. Finally, is Naomi S. Baron’s “How E-Reading Threatens Learning is the Humanities” (2014) a different approach is noted as eLearning could be argued as distracting to a student’s learning process. It is no question that pupils today can

Apart from my professional commitments, exalting success stories of E-Commerce platforms propelled me to go for my own online shopping venture “BookJugad”. The idea was to sell used internationally-authored books in good condition at the cheapest price. We established an end to end business

Barnes and Nobles is one of the biggest bookstores that has a brick-and-mortal store concept. In the past they were know as a “big bully” that drove small book stores to close down because of their aggressive tactics to have competetetive advantage over them. Nonetheless, with the evolving circle of technology they have had a hard time in keeping up with the E-book era. In 2014 E-books increased its reader subscription by 28% compared to 23% in 2013. This number will continue increasing because 50% off American’s have access to devices that are either an e-reader or a tablet. B&N changed its business model to adjust to this new setting before it suffered a

Students have number of problems when they are going to college. One of the biggest problem students are facing is buying the textbooks or access code for their classes such as math, science, English, etc. Those students who are freshman they do not realize how much they will be spending for the books and they think they will be only spending $200 but in reality it cost more than $500. Students always seems very confuse, mad and shock after spending this much money on the textbooks. Beginning of semester most of the new students have same question, such as is there any way we can save money from spending so much for these books? is there any website that we can get books for half price? Yes, there

Better World Books (BWB) was founded in 2002 as a B corporation, meaning it targets successful performance in three fundamental areas: financial, social, and environmental endeavors. BWB has grown successfully since its creation as a small, socially motivated firm to one of the larger, more successful corporations of its kind. Despite the impressive and inspiring performance and growth through creative expansions, BWB acknowledges the changing conditions of the used book marketplace and is pleased to outline a brief review of current strategy and recommendations for supporting operations moving forward.

The seller of digital textbooks will also be saving money over producing hard copies. 32% of the cost allocated to paper, printing and editorial can be completely eliminated along with 22.4% of costs related to bookstore operations and personnel. Bookstores as we know them could become obsolete or transformed into stores that sell tablets, e-readers and software packages on campus. Publishers or sellers will now be able to tap into a more global market with electronic textbooks as the information can be translated into many languages quickly.

During the development of technology, most people have shifted to use electronic books to read both academic and non-academic texts. However, despite the technological changes, there has been a wide debate about the benefits of paper books over the e-books. It is important to understand that various reasons are suggesting why people should shift back to using the traditional books rather than the electronic ones. Even though some think that e-books are better that traditional ones, I believe that readers should return to traditional books because of various reasons.