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The video actually threw me off. My cursor was right there, very confused for a sec - imo it's not separated enough from the rest of the experience for it to be entirely helpful, f…

I run a price comparison site for textbooks, SlugBooks. There are two simple factors which impact slow adoption of digital books: 1) college bookstores. It's a distribution issue. …

Wrote this case study for Usabilla's blog. Hopefully it provides some design inspiration if you've been thinking of doing a reskin. We had a lot of fun with ours.

http://www.dribbble.com - best site for this hands down.

Pretty nuts - the former manager of CollegeBookRenter.com, a textbook selling website, is being accused of counterfeit textbooks.

few takeaways (having just gone thru the same experience of launching our first app in July) 1) don't assume that because you're bootstrapping, you "have to charge something for th…

Here's just one of them Northwest Missouri State (scroll to the bottom) - http://www.nwmissouri.edu/admissions/laptop/index.htm Note that their stats about how rentals save student…

The link is just http://www.slugbooks.com - cheers.

Typically there are 1-2 copies on reserve at the library, but you can only check them out for a couple hours at the time. With a class of 50+ students that's not a workable solutio…

Some universities take it a step further and include the cost of textbooks in tuition. Be glad that isn't happening globally. That's the worst case scenario here - students are jus…

Hey, thanks for this. There are corner cases where custom editions make sense, but overall they cause far more harm than good. -The biggest issue is that custom editions segment th…

Yep, kayak for textbooks. You can either search by book or search by school/course. If you really want to get angry, look up MATH 203 at Medgar Evers College in NY. A textbook with…

Custom editions and packaged access codes are the last futile attempt that publishers bookstores and professors have against cheaper Internet alternatives. The one thing your write…

Kyro - I think it's ridiculous that people are so possessive of free design concepts, but one cool blog post to take a look at is Metalab's theoretical redesign of the Zappos homep…

This reminds me of how Facebook was having issues with apps sending message spam within Facebook, so they prevented apps from initiating messages and instead forced apps to spam ou…