[etni] Teachers can sell their work online via new Web site
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Teachers can sell their work online via new Web site
Mercury News - June 27, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) - For all those teachers who take work home at night,
creating lessons they hope kids will like, the reward is a good day in
class. Now there could be another payoff: cash. Teachers are selling their
original lectures, course outlines and study guides to other teachers
through a new Web site launched by New York entrepreneur Paul Edelman.
The site, teacherspayteachers.com, aims to be an eBay for educators. For a
$29.95 yearly fee, sellers can post their work and set their prices. Buyers
rate the products.
"It's a way to pat teachers on the back, to value what they do," Edelman
said. "They create the material night after night. The best way to value
that is to put a price on it."
Lots of Web sites offer lesson plans that can be purchased or downloaded for
free. Yet Edelman says they don't cover a fraction of what teachers
themselves have come up with. By offering them a way to make a buck, the
33-year-old former teacher says he's found a niche. He's banking on it.
Edelman cashed in his retirement fund and maxed his credit cards to launch
the business in April. He keeps 15 percent of every sale, but he knows the
only way he will really make money is by getting "teacher-authors" to pay
the membership fee.
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