ActionThaxton

the special edition books are produced specifically to make the secondary market in these books less efficient, as well as forcing more people to purchase the new copies of these books through the campus bookstore, instead of through other sellers that might offer a more competitive price, even on new books.

It's a disaster for students that don't have the energy/knowhow/time to sell their books back to other students, and it's one of the scummier developments in an industry with a rich history of scummy developments.

ok, so I've experimented with other ways to do this, and while I'm not particularly knowledgable about them, I was really impressed with the simplicity and speed that this worked for the first one that I did.

perhaps it's because there are so many shady ways this gets done, and since you haven't monetized this yet, you haven't been compromised?

Do you have a plan for how to make this sustainable without compromising the simplicity and integrity of it? I don't know what the costs are for hosting this, but it seems like something that will have to be resolved eventually