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Solution overview

Our Solution

Book Sharing Platform

Tagline

Share book, knowledge and happiness

Pitch us on your solution

We have a good generation who already make them as a good reader generation .
They are very much interested to read various kinds of book.

But the big amount of price of original book is a great problem. It is very tough to a general school/college/university’s student to buy a book by costing this amount. So it is almost impossible for students or book lover to read those book though they are highly interested.
So we have an idea which can minimize/solve this problem!
We can design an app which have two side. There are book Reader and Provider.
Reader can collect book from provider by GPS location and choice.
This idea can make a positive change the lifestyle of people in Bangladesh. By spreading book, we hope knowledge will also spread. Big problem, higher cost of book, will be solved by implementation of this idea.

What is the problem you are solving?

The price of books of original edition in Bangladesh is very high if those are original version or international version. The reader of Bangladesh are very much interested to read books but for above problem they failed to find test of book reading and for this problem, the knowledge sharing habit and problem solving skill associated with problem analysis get stuck in Bangladesh.

It is very tough to a general school / college / university’s student to bring a book by costing of 1000+ taka . Some of the books cost is so much high if it is original edition . So it is almost impossible for students or book lover to read those book though they are highly interested people.

One of my personal survey say 85% of university's student think, higher amount of price of book is the main problem for them and they think for this problem they are behind to outer world. They think they are behind in problem solving skill, critical thinking also.

81% of them think the availability of book is also a problem.

We hope our model can play a great rule to solve those problem.

Who are you serving?

We are trying to serve the readers of Bangladesh specially. In this readers category, university and college students are lions share.

I did a survey to understand their needs and try to motivate them participate in the solution. They fell their problem and enthusiastic to solve this problem.

This solution mainly try to solve their problem and minimize the cost of book with sharing idea.

In this system, provider post about book (one or more than one) with details (including price , edition , name , author etc. ) if he wants to sell or rent book which he has.
Reader can collect book from providers post. They can buy or rent book. Reader have to pay full price of book for both case. But If reader rent the book then he can take the book for certain period and provider give back 85% or 80% money to reader if he give back the book within time (in rent case) .

If some donors/providers wish to donate book they can also do that.

What is your solution?

Book Sharing app
This idea , book sharing platform related to Bangladeshi people's lifestyle .
But develop book reading culture we have to face a lot of difficulty.
So, we have an idea which can minimize this problem!
We can design an app which have two side. There are Reader and Provider .
Provider post about book (one or more than one) with details (including cover picture, price, edition, name, author etc. ) if he wants to sell or rent book which he has.
Reader collect book from providers post. Reader can buy or rent book. Reader have to pay full price of book for both case. But If he rent it he can take it for certain period and provider give back 85% or 80% money to reader if he back the book within time (in rent case) .If some donors can wish to donate book they can also do that.

There have a penalty option if reader don’t give back the book within time (in rent case).
Reader can search book and if it is available (If any provider post it) then it shows with GPS location. Reader can collect it from nearest location by seeing details of this book if he /she wish. If he choice the book then he can click Demand option. Provider notify about demand . Then they can make transaction by cash / mobile banking and reader collect book by mutual understanding.

By this project, providers also be benefited economically without big cost. Actually books are idle after reading in shelf! But here reuse, activeness of books is a great achievement.
Every Provider and Reader must do register with ID and Phone number besides some other option.
We wish to implement this idea in android based platform initially. In flow of time we have plan to introduce it in web platform.

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Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Chittagong, Bangladesh

In which sector would you categorize your solution?

Technology

Our solution's stage of development:

Concept