Beat the Bookstore

Help Us Lower the Cost of College Textbooks

Business Type

Franchise

Required Net Worth

$300,000

Overview

Students are required to purchase particular textbooks for their classes. The college bookstore is typically the primary outlet near campus to purchase the required books. While the Internet offers some alternatives, many students baulk at online purchases due to shipping charges, uncertainty of book condition, time constraints and other reasons.

Buying textbooks is not the only dilemma today’s college students face. Following the completion of a class, students look to recover some book expenses by selling the textbook. Again, while there are some online options, the typical student will usually go back to the campus bookstore. Traditional college bookstores set small buy-back quotas and brief buy-back periods for used books. This means many students will be offered a small amount for the book or nothing at all.

Beat The Bookstore has designed a franchise program to sell books for less and buy them back for more thus serving the customers better. Learn more about this exciting opportunity now available at select campuses across the country!

Start your own business in the $7.7 billion college textbook industry and give students lower prices on textbooks! Franchise opportunities are now available in most U.S. states and expanding rapidly.

As a Beat The Bookstore franchise owner, you'll have the benefit of a proven business system. It's the compilation of everything we know about the industry, as well as superior business practices— taken from our heads and brought together in a combination of software, processes, and techniques.

Products & Services

Beat the Bookstore a franchise opportunity from Franchise Genius

Beat The Bookstore’s concept is very simple. We pay college students more for their used textbooks than the college’s bookstore. Then, we turn around and sell them to students for less than the college bookstore. Beat The Bookstore is focused on textbooks and great service. You won’t find any sweatshirts, bumper stickers, or any trinkets in our stores. Instead, you’ll find uncommon customer service, attentive store employees, and rock-bottom prices for textbooks needed in your next class!

We are on a revolutionary mission. The Beat The Bookstore team is reworking an industry distribution infrastructure and having fun in the process. College bookstores go through a network of “middle men” to fill their book shelves. Beat The Bookstore retains the majority of books from student buy-backs to resell in its own stores. This saves a ton of time and money. We pass the savings on to our customers. Simple, right?

Training & Support

Beat The Bookstore offers local franchisees the support of a world-class operations team and infrastructure. This includes the following:

Site Selection and Store Launch Support
Training Program
Superior Software & Tech Support
Outstanding Customer Service Program
Unique & Effective Local Marketing Strategies
Locally Branded Website
Online Ordering with Local Pickup (coming soon)

Beat The Bookstore is now offering exclusive franchises at select colleges across the country. Learn more how you can get started with your own bookstore franchise.

Why Beat the Bookstore?

Beat The Bookstore is a turn-key franchise program designed to exploit an untapped niche in the $7.7 billion college textbook marketplace. As a franchisee, you will own and manage an exclusive Beat The Bookstore retail location on or near a college campus. Our proven system will empower you to pay students more for their used textbooks and still maintain a lower cost of goods sold than your competition.

Beat The Bookstore locations focus exclusively on college textbooks. This approach simplifies store management, reduces inventory costs, maximizes store shelf-space usage, and enables franchisees to deliver uncompromised attention to the local students’ textbook needs. Our nationwide network of stores creates an efficient re-distribution platform for used textbook inventory. The majority of our inventory comes directly from our student customers across the country. As new stores open, this available inventory will continue to grow.

Beat The Bookstore is a proven model for success.

Are You a Good Fit for Beat the Bookstore?

Are you ready to exploit an underserved market in a $7.7 billion industry? Are you excited about the unique opportunity to start your own business with a proven operations model? Then, it’s time to serve a campus near you!

Financial Requirements
Beat The Bookstore offers an outstanding opportunity for serious entrepreneurs. Prospective franchisees are expected to have a net worth of at least $300,000.