Seth Kinast’s Blog

Wanna make an easy first million? Open up a chain of college bookstores that don’t skewer the helpless college students and roast them for every penny they’re worth. Let them know when new editions of books will be released. Give them more than $5 a book to sell back their books, especially if you’ve got 5 more semesters before the book goes out-of-print that you can sell it “used” for $100 a pop. ($150 originally, -$5 to buy it back, $100 used, -$5 to buy it back… 6 times of selling the same book and that’s quite a profit!). Don’t immediately hide all the “out-of-date” editions when a new edition comes out, thus forcing students to buy the new one. Most of the time, the old edition will do just fine, thanks. Play nice.

The bookstore wants about $300 for all my books (which is relatively cheap compared to past semesters :/) but I spent an hour and a half on the Internet and got everything I needed for around half that price. Sigh.