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Screwing College Bookstores

Posted on January 17, 2007 in College | Comments (0)

This company called chegg.com is selling textbooks soo cheap that they are screwing college bookstores that rip off students. I remember paying something like 900 a semester for textbooks and I guess this website does it for 200 cheaper on average.

Why couldn't this stuff been around while I was in college!!!!

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I have never understood the clearly captive market in college bookstores. Everywhere else on the planet books are commodities driven by supply and demand. On college campuses they are the primary profit centers.

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