Monday, 23 June 2008

Online study guides; a new concept

Together with Aleph Labs, the developers of the Good Mark's Study Guides website, I have been working on creating online versions of the Good Mark's Study Guides. This means you can buy a study guide through the website, view the content online anywhere you have access to the Internet, and you can print out a study guide from the Good Mark's Study Guides website. You have access for 12 months and can print the guide as many times as you like.

I believe this has many advantages; there is no need to ship the guide around the world, which costs time and money. If your guide gets damaged or lost, you simply print out a new study guide. When you print out the study guide, you can add your own comments on the back of the printed page and you can punch holes and add the study guide to your binder.

What is not so easy though is selling the online guides; the published study guides are available through brick-and-mortar bookstores, online bookstores, and other websites. However, it is not possible to sell the online study guides through any of those channels, which means I have to find another way to spread the word online (without spending a fortune on banners and sponsored search results) and to make students aware of this new type of study guide.

The online study guides will launch in the next couple of weeks and I would be very interested in your feedback! Watch this space...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Online study guides is good concept and through Praxis II we can take the advantages from it.