Last February, Angel Card, a junior at Florida State University, saw a chalk advertisement written on a campus walkway that promised cash in exchange for class notes. She uploaded a study guide she’d written for a midterm in her Nationality, Race, and Ethnicity class to a website called Flashnotes (now called Luvo) and priced it at $5.
“The first exam was a hit,” said Card. “Sixty-six students out of a class of 200 bought my study guide.” After Luvo took its 30 percent cut, Card made $178 from the guide. By the end of the semester, she’d added notes for two history classes and one macroeconomics class and earned about $700.
