In the past, TRiLex tried to be a mechanism that would allow Austinites to exchange books. The idea was to use the World Wide Web's interconnectedness to develop a community of interacting book lovers and, thereby, negate the need for book resellers such as Half Price Books. Unfortunately, this service did not work. It's true that anyone can be a publisher in cyberspace, but the ability to publish means little when no one reads what you publish. It was a very interesting lesson which forced my to re-evaluate the notion of marketing.
Marketing is an interesting field with more than a few thoughtful and intelligent people.
If you scoff at this statement or are interested in doing business on the Web, then I would suggest that you check out Robert Raisch's IWorld column . I'm finishing writing my thesis. I help put out Digital Espresso , which is a Web publication dealing with the Java language. I am also looking for a job. For more details, please see my resume.