Ugenie launches textbooks

[mekin]

We just launched textbooks on Ugenie.

Somehow, textbooks seem to fit in very well with a lot of things that we at Ugenie believe in.

1. People like buying them together - 3 to 6 of them at a time. Perfect candidates for our bundling algorithms.
2. Students buying textbooks are extremely price conscious, and we hope they will appreciate our real-time

Comments

[karmakurma]

I like the way uGenie has evolved. I'm a believer of the transaction facilitation business model (you provide a service to bring buyers and sellers together, and keep a part of the transaction as finders' fees. Mobissimo is another great example).
Yo should try and evangelize the company more aggressively. Talk to folks like Om Malik @ gigaom.
Are there any plans of offering the platform as a service for other industries/verticals? (will be in bangalore next week; can we meet to discuss ?)

[mekin]

Yes there are plans to offer something like a service .. early days ... and we arent sure about a lot of things how it will eventually turn out ... but yes we are toying with som ideas.

I am out of town thursday onwards.
We could meet over lunch before that.