Bookstore Policies

Book Buyback

(How to Sell Your books to the Bookstore)

Where?

By the front entrance of the bookstore.

When?

December and May. Check Schedule for specific dates and times.

How?

The bookstore will buy your textbook for half the purchased price if the following conditions are met:

• Your professor has ordered the book for the next term prior to buyback.
• The bookstore is not overstocked (meaning we have enough copies for the next class).
• The book is in saleable condition. Books with missing pages, missing covers, water damaged pages, and/or loose sections can not be bought back.
• If you bought a package (textbook bundled with supplementary material), all parts of the package must be included when selling it back.

The bookstore does not purchase course packets, study guides, work books or lab manuals.

If the Bookstore can’t buy your book

The bookstore has a national used book vendor to conduct each buy back. They may need your book if we are overstocked or it’s a current edition and just not being used again. They will not pay you half price as the Bookstore would, but you have the option of keeping your book or trying to sell it at the next buy back. (Some courses are only offered once a year or every two years and the professor may or may not order the textbook again. By holding your book there is the chance it could go into a new edition.)

Please remember the purpose of buy back is to save you money by providing used books for the next term, not to buy books that are no longer used.