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The Student Section app - where students can find fair prices for textbooks… All sold by students

Topic: Health EducationPublished May 14, 2021

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Selling and buying textbooks in a students-only marketplace is an excellent way to cut textbook costs and save time. It’s sometimes difficult to find specific textbooks, such as custom course books, at retailers. The Student Section is competitive as a textbook marketplace because it offers fair market pricing, - with no middleman - offers a personalized and wide selection to students, and there is no haggling or bidding. The Student Section mobile app helps students find the right coursebook at the right price: • Easily conduct detailed searches and create listings at the touch of a buttonrn• Save listings, make offers, get notifications for new listings of a specific textbookrn• Read sellers’ notes and tips on the textbook/ classrn• Get detailed information about a book and buy supplies necessary for a classrnThe Student Section mobile app is targeting the 20 million students out there - many studying online - who need the right textbooks at the right cost. The Student Section is a textbooks and course supplies marketplace for students, wherever they are in the US. Students sell to students - meaning that even custom coursebooks may be available, with no haggling or bidding, and no middleman. • Easily conduct detailed searches and create listings at the touch of a buttonrn• Save listings, make offers, get notifications for new listings of a specific textbookrn• Read sellers’ notes and tips on the textbook/ classrn• Get detailed information about a book and buy supplies necessary for a classrn rnThere are about 20 million students enrolled in college, and they spend an average of $1,200 per year on textbooks, alone. The Student Section textbooks and course supplies mobile app has the potential to break into a highly lucrative textbook market, where it can offer students large selections at fair prices. Through social media campaigns, university partnerships, and newspaper and website bulletins, The Student Section will be able to offer an online marketplace where textbooks are sold by students to students: • Easily conduct detailed searches and create listings at the touch of a buttonrn• Save listings, make offers, get notifications for new listings of a specific textbookrn• Read sellers’ notes and tips on the textbook/ classrn• Get detailed information about a book and buy supplies necessary for a classrn• No middleman and no haggling Support the Student Section Kickstarter Campaign Here

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