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		<title>New Rental Books business</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[Claddagh,
You make a good point]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Claddagh,
You make a good point on the royalties, and the difference between a lending library and rental for money. 

As for the potential lawsuit, I think it`s hogwash. As an author
myself, I`d rather sell more books for a larger percenta]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[You didn`t mention this, but I h]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[You didn`t mention this, but I hope you remembered to&nbsp;factor in&nbsp;one&nbsp;very important expense for this business: author royalties. 
Failure to pay royalties based on multiple users could and most likely will result in lawsuits from t]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[check this out http://www.makete]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[check this out http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/newsroom.asp?id2=1810 7might this be of help?
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				<title><![CDATA[Research how to offer downloadab]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/New-Rental-Books-business.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Research how to offer downloadable textbooks to PDAs or even how to do podcasts of textbooks. Sort of like an audiobook except downloadable to PDA. Textbook rental is an ok idea, however, you`ll be buying the textbook, renting them for maybe 4 semesters]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hi Craig,Thank you very much for]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hi Craig,Thank you very much for your response. You definitely have a point and it made us go back to the drawing board.Appreciate your input.Regards,Atul
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				<title><![CDATA[The reason I asked your location]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The reason I asked your location is that we just had a fella from
Indonesia who wanted to build a book rental business. There, government
intervention, social structure, and getting distribution was a major
problem.

But for Michigan, you`re i]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. Ou]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. Our pricing model on achieving profit in 3 turns. The first 2 would be recovering the costs incurred. While this may not beat all the prices available in the market, it takes away from the student, the liability&nbsp]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[When I was back at Cornell ... A]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[When I was back at Cornell ... Amazon used to send me Christmas presents with little letters "signed" by Jeff Bezos.Yeah, that`s totally where all my money went!I still have a lot of the books I bought back then, speaking of outdated texts.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Well when you rent them, you may]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Well when you rent them, you may end up paying that much as well.I used Bigwords when they used to do the buying and selling ... now it`s just a price database. It worked out pretty well for me. I don`t know what the age ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Well when you rent them, you may]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Well when you rent them, you may end up paying that much as well.

I used Bigwords when they used to do the buying and selling ... now
it`s just a price database. It worked out pretty well for me. I don`t
know what the age comparison is here, b]]></description>
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