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Originally Posted by Goran
Better question is, who SELLS their books back to the bookstore these days? The way they operate you'll be lucky to get $10 for a book you paid $70+ for. It's like the textbooks have leprosy or something the way they treat them.
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Textbook prices are low when the textbook is not in demand on campus. Demand is based on the Professors letting us know what books they will be using. If the Instructor doesn't let us know what they will be using (they may not have even been assigned their classes yet) then we can't buy books for our own campus. All we can do is buy for other campuses.
The cost of shipping these books across country drives the price down.
We don't consider used books lepers. We would love to be able to offer more used books. To our way of thinking there is nothing worse than a new edition.
It's just not feasible for the Store to buy things we do not need and we have no way of knowing what books are on course until the Profs tell us.
