Hey, recently I’ve made a point of reminding people that I haven’t been a spokesman for craigslist, or had any role in management 
since 2000.
My deal is that, as a manager, I kinda suck, but I found my calling in customer service, and every day I saw how we helped people put food on the table and put a roof over that table.
Customer service is a big part of what inspires me; also consider that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”(Martin Luther King Jr.)
For a few years now (time flies!) I’ve been working on public service and philanthropy under the craigconnects.org umbrella.
In the short term, I have a few causes I believe in and support a number of organizations who are good at getting stuff done for those causes.
In the long term, over a twenty year period say, my goal is to connect people everywhere, to support the stuff *they* believe in.
People often know me as the founder of craigslist, but these days I’m on my own public service mission. So, thoughts I share publicly here (or anywhere else) are my own, and I speak only for myself.
That way craigslist and its users won’t (or at least shouldn’t) get blamed for anything I say or do.
Craig Connects 
After returning to college after many years, I was astonished to find how expensive textbooks are.I think it would be a service to(poor)students to have a Craigslist category dedicated to reselling or trading textbooks. -Vince
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I guess you missed the part in this article where Craig said REPEATEDLY that he has no role in CL management. Plus, I guess you also missed the part where there is already a category on CL to buy and sell books. I see a lot of textbooks there. In fact, in my region, that is most of the listings. You can only have so many categories. I am sure they thought long and hard before rejecting the idea of having several for rather narrow groups of items.
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Vincent,
Moving beyond the comment that Craig has no dealing with the management of Craigslist, you have a very valid suggestion.
I rented my textbooks last term, and purchased 2 e-textbooks to save a LOT of money. There are a few sites that only rent textbooks, too. Education is changing, and textbook gouging by the universities is taking a major hit, I’m betting.
Also, there are new educational sites bringing the cost of a degree down to virtually nothing, and now ‘nano-degrees’ offered by Udacity, in partnership with some huge companies.
Things are changing due to economic and consumer demand, and it may not be necessary to start another textbook exchange. 🙂
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I work for the government for 26 years before succumbing to an illness. That time I was a manager and have to agree with you I don’t know that was really good at it. You are right I should pay more attention as to what I do credit for this system is a little tweaking for me I’m old-school.
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Thank you for founding Craigslist! It is a great service. 🙂
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Keep ujp the “Good” work Craig!
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