How Are Faculty Vital to Buyback?
Obtaining a quality education can place a financial burden on many college students. Just as the school attempts to keep tuition and fee increases to a minimum, the bookstore also tries to help students by ensuring the lowest possible price on textbooks and course materials. One principle way that the store tries to make textbooks more affordable is by stocking as many used books as we can. Students demand used books-used copies nearly always sell out before new copies. Where do we get used books? We buy back used copies students do not plan to keep for their personal libraries. We also purchase used books from national wholesale companies, who buy them from students at other campuses. End-of-term buyback not only provides a healthy supply of used books for the next term, it also gives money back to the students who do not wish to keep a particular book. Did you know that faculty plays the most critical role of all in the buyback process? The buyback process really begins when the book
