Niche E-Commerce in Textbooks: ClassBook CEO Tony Pfister (Part 3)

Sramana: How to schools use your tools to operate their bookstore operations? Tony Pfister: They use our tools to select the course materials. We have warehouse inventories of books. In addition, we manage the digital distribution of course materials for schools as they move into the digital space.

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Niche E-Commerce in Textbooks: ClassBook CEO Tony Pfister (Part 2)

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