I've been working on a project with one of my classmates, Meiling Shih, over the past couple of weeks. She wrote a book over the past year that contains notes for OSCE exams, otherwise known as Objective Structured Clinical Exam. The book ended up containing notes on over 100 stations with over 200 pages of content.
She had quite a bit of success selling hard copies of the book to the class below us, so I approached her about selling it over the internet to other medical students across Canada, and, of course, all over the world.
We setup
oscenotes.com, and converted the hard copy of the book into eBook format. Our biggest challenge was to figure out how to ensure that the eBook wouldn't be easily copied from computer to computer. We solved that problem by requiring each copy to be locked to one individual computer. We also limited the software by disabling the copy function to ensure that the content wouldn't end up on someone's website. However, like all software, I'm sure a crack will end up on the internet at some point in time.
We went with PayPal for our payment method. They seem to offer the lowest rates and easiest setup.
Anyways, if you know anyone who's interested in buying our book, you can send them over to
www.oscenotes.com. We're currently selling the 1st edition for $25.00 CAD, which is about half the price as our only competition.
If you have any comments or questions about our new venture, we'd be happy to hear them! It'd also be great if you could spread the word on your websites, blogs, etc. We've got to pay down our student loans
