2008 Woodie Awards
Bookstore makes textbook buyback quotes available to students online
Amy Brown, Reporter
Issue date: 4/29/08 Section: News
A familiar text book buyback week ritual may be coming to an end as the YSU Bookstore is set to provide online quotes for returning books starting May 4. Students will no longer have to crowd into the hallway that leads to the buyback counters at the bookstore, wondering if making the return is worth their time.
While students spend hundreds to get them, some textbooks pay mere dollars upon return. These are the books that become expensive souvenirs of the semester.
Students have found additional uses for the new service. Freshman Amanda Fraser plans to use the quote system to price a book she's selling to a friend.
Chuck Sabatino, the director of the YSU Bookstore, said that new service is designed to help students. "Anything we can do to make things more convenient for the students, we will do," he said.
Susan Fox is the assistant director and wants to make sure students get all their money back that they can.
"I encourage students to bring all of their books, because even though a price might not show up on the buyback list, we still may buy them back," she said, explaining that bundled CDs and booklets throw off the numbering system.
To get a quote, students enter the book's condition and its ISBN, the 10 or 13 digit International Standard Book Number found on the back cover or front pages of a book.
WHERE AND WHEN
YSU Bookstore, Kilcawley Center
April 28 to May 10
Monday to Thursday 8:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Wick Skywalk Bridge
May 5 to May 9
Monday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Buyback Guidelines
The bookstore will give back half of what the new price was of the book was, and 67% if the book was used if:
1) The faculty is going to use the book the next semester.
2) If YSU Bookstore is not overstocked with the title.
3) If the book is resalable, intact and reusable.
4) It is the current edition.
5) Students must present YSU Student I.D.
While students spend hundreds to get them, some textbooks pay mere dollars upon return. These are the books that become expensive souvenirs of the semester.
Students have found additional uses for the new service. Freshman Amanda Fraser plans to use the quote system to price a book she's selling to a friend.
Chuck Sabatino, the director of the YSU Bookstore, said that new service is designed to help students. "Anything we can do to make things more convenient for the students, we will do," he said.
Susan Fox is the assistant director and wants to make sure students get all their money back that they can.
"I encourage students to bring all of their books, because even though a price might not show up on the buyback list, we still may buy them back," she said, explaining that bundled CDs and booklets throw off the numbering system.
To get a quote, students enter the book's condition and its ISBN, the 10 or 13 digit International Standard Book Number found on the back cover or front pages of a book.
WHERE AND WHEN
YSU Bookstore, Kilcawley Center
April 28 to May 10
Monday to Thursday 8:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Wick Skywalk Bridge
May 5 to May 9
Monday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Buyback Guidelines
The bookstore will give back half of what the new price was of the book was, and 67% if the book was used if:
1) The faculty is going to use the book the next semester.
2) If YSU Bookstore is not overstocked with the title.
3) If the book is resalable, intact and reusable.
4) It is the current edition.
5) Students must present YSU Student I.D.
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jackass
posted 8/15/08 @ 2:54 AM EST
Nice...if only these damn buybook sites would pay me more thatn 60 cents
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