There is hardly any of us who have not been to the second hand book markets during our college days. Whether to look for text books or the thrillers, the comics or the romantic novels, buying from the old book markets have always been a tiresome task involving time and most importantly patience besides the huge effort involved in bargains and good deals.
But in 2013, Bhavesh Sharma, a second year student of Electronics and Communications Engineering (BTech), thought about bringing a solution to this perennial problem of book hunting at good prices. Along with two of his childhood friends, Prateek Maheshwari and Alok Sharma and his brother-in-law Vidyut Sharma, he started a mobile app called BOOKCHOR - probably the only app in India currently, which lets its users buy and sell second hand books of all streams at good and cheap deals. The journey for the last four years has been both challenging and fascinating….. a journey that Bhavesh Sharma, the co-founder recollects quite passionately today with Suchandra Ganguly.
Tell us something about your company. Where did you get this idea of a start-up from and how has your journey been so far?
BookChor is an e-commerce company on a mission to promote reading skills and make books more accessible. Back in 2013, Prateek, Alok, and I met and started discussing about the difficulty we face while purchasing second hand books, and how frustrating and time consuming it is to go all the way down to unorganised second hand book markets and spend the whole day and manage to get just a couple of books if not more. I then discussed this problem with Vidyut Sharma, my brother-in-law who had been working in Algeria for Nokia, and realised that he faced the same problem 10 years back when he was pursuing his BTech. It was then when we decided that we should get together and try to see how this perpetual problem could be addressed. The idea was discussed and chiselled till the proposed platform became bigger and more comprehensive.
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