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Do not buy textbooks.

Do not buy textbooks.

Author: CrunchBase

Don’t buy or rent textbooks. Bookstep is a social textbook platform that lets you access digital textbooks on-demand.



Post Date: 04/27/2012

Online Textbook Rentals: Books for Lease

Online Textbook Rentals: Books for Lease

Author: Fran Gilmore

The great thing about my undergraduate career was that it whirled by SO fast. That’s because I was enrolled in classes that lasted a quarter—around three months give or take a few we...



Post Date: 01/30/2012

Start-Up Of The Week: Bookstep, Rent Your Digital Reference Material On A Pay-Per-Time Basis

Start-Up Of The Week: Bookstep, Rent Your Digital Reference Material On A Pay-Per-Time Basis

Author: e-junkie.info

Want to refer multiple textbooks for that course that you are working on in your school/college? Is the prohibitive cost of textbooks stopping you from doing so? Fear not, help is at hand. ...



Post Date: 01/25/2012

Pay as you read textbooks?

Pay as you read textbooks?

Author: Deb Baker

As a parent and a former student, I think it sounds brilliant not to pay thousands of dollars for textbooks. As a writer who tracks publishing trends, I wonder if this model could kill...



Post Date: 01/15/2012

Bookstep offers a la carte model for e-textbooks

Bookstep offers a la carte model for e-textbooks

Author: Chris Meadows

I’m sure everyone who went to college has had the experience of having to buy a whole book when their professor only turned out to need a few chapters from it. One of the obvious benefits ...



Post Date: 12/23/2011

Bookstep:

Bookstep: "Pay What You Want" Textbook Model

Author: Dennis Abrams

If the move from hard copy to digital textbooks seems like a natural 21st-century progression; imagine what the next step might be. Imagine a website that allows students to pay what they want f...



Post Date: 12/23/2011

Get Your Textbooks

Get Your Textbooks

Author: Marcus P. Zillman

In this age of increasing school fees, students don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for a textbook, read a few chapters, take a few notes and then sell it back for a fraction of what they ...



Post Date: 11/27/2011

Read Textbooks Online With Bookstep

Read Textbooks Online With Bookstep

Author: Brad Merrill

No one likes buying textbooks. You pay your hard-earned money to read a couple chapters, take some notes, and sell the book at a fraction of the cost. It’s a waste of money. But startups l...



Post Date: 11/27/2011

Max Basaraba Talks Digital Publishing

Max Basaraba Talks Digital Publishing

Author: Dianna Dilworth

Bookstep.com is a new website for digital textbooks. The site lets students pay what they want for digital textbooks and social study features. We caught up with Max Basaraba, founder/CEO of the...



Post Date: 10/22/2011

Bookstep.com read textbooks online

Bookstep.com read textbooks online

Author: Roger Hollings

What good is buying a textbook, reading two or three chapters and taking a couple of notes before selling it off for a fraction of what it cost you? No matter which way you look at it, that does...



Post Date: 10/11/2011