“The National Association of College Stores (NACS) says the average college student will spend $655 on textbooks each year, but with a single textbook easily costing as much as
$200, that total can easily be much higher. In fact, the College Board puts the annual cost of books and materials at $1,168” (Kingkade, 2013). College textbooks have risen over 812% in the last 30 years. That is a staggering figure. As the cost continues to dramatically increase my social entrepreneurship business is a used textbook exchange among past, present and future students.
A student can spend upwards of $35,000 on a single year of college. My used textbook exchange can help decrease those annual expenses by providing gently used textbooks free of charge to the student. The College
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I understand that is unorthodox but my goal is to convince students to be a part of something greater than just themselves and literally change this process forever. Student’s young and old are all searching for something. They are all looking to better themselves by educating themselves and expanding their horizons. When given the opportunity to better the cost of college textbooks I know the large majority of students will want to be a part of that movement, from that moment on its free textbooks for all students for the rest of their college days. No more paying $200 for one book. Most students are taking three to four classes per semester totaling around six to eight hundred dollars in books alone.
A student hands in one book but will nothing in return for that book. They hand it in and that’s it. No cash back or credit of any kind. “The percentage of students enrolling in college in the fall immediately following high school completion was 69.2 percent in 2015. In fall 2017,
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some 20.4 million students are expected to attend American colleges and