Why Does the Co-op Buy Back Textbooks on a Single-Campus Basis Rather Than On a System-Wide Basis?
As for the single-campus vs. system-wide market, Based on our 20+ years of experience in the UConn market, we firmly believe that the single-campus market policy that we use benefits the most students. A single-campus market prevents the varieties of exam timing and the influence of disparate enrollments to unfairly influence the opportunity to buy and sell used books. With a single-campus market approach, the opportunity to sell back books at 50% is roughly the same across all campuses for all students. The fact is that in many core courses, the ones taught at several campuses and the ones that tend to use the same book, we often are offered more books at Buyback than we need to meet demand. A system-wide market could also serve to undermine the intentions of the faculty member who considers the used book/buyback opportunity for their students when making textbook decisions, especially at the smaller-enrollment, regional campuses. Of course, there are circumstances where acting on a s
