Sales
at campus bookstores declined 3 % from $ 540 million to $ 525 million, «due to a shift from selling new and used textbooks to lower priced textbook rentals,» according to the earnings release.
Buy used books
at the campus bookstore or online.
Buy Used — Used textbooks, whether purchased online at a place like Amazon or even
at your campus bookstore, are much less expensive than brand new.
As you may have noticed
at your campus bookstore, they often accept used books for either a credit or cash payout at the end of the year.
Check out the cost of the textbooks
at the campus bookstore first, this will give you an idea of the baseline retail price.
Not exact matches
On Monday, Starbucks and Joyride Coffee Distributors announced a partnership that would bring draft cold brew coffee to Starbucks» foodservice accounts
at hospitals,
bookstores, college and university
campuses and offices.
Were inclement weather conditions to flood or destroy the Christian
bookstore at the downtown
campus of your mega-church, should we interpret that to be an act of God in judgment of materialism?
I found this one
at the Notre Dame
bookstore when I was on
campus for the University of Texas game.
Currently, CourseSmart is available
at around 1,000 American
campus bookstores.
Yet just as high street booksellers blanched
at the rise of the e-book (and consequent shrinking of their bestseller market and creeping dominance by Amazon), so academic bookshops are right to be wary of how digital inevitably benefits the bigger publishers over smaller
campus bookstores.
Digital, Rental and Used Textbooks Provide Savings of 25 to 75 New York, New York — August 15, 2011 — As financially strapped higher education students head back to
campus for the new school year, many will find dramatic savings and great convenience
at their Barnes & Noble College
campus bookstores.
The
campus bookstore, a seeming anachronism in the digital age, will soon become history
at the University of Massachusetts.
I had to hawk copies to
bookstores in Salt Lake City, as well as the
campus bookstore at BYU (where I was a student).
I'm not counting them out entirely; they are quietly making moves in several areas to take over college
campus bookstores (they have done that
at THE Ohio State University, among other places) but I don't know if they will continue to market their own tablet / reader or (more likely) spin it off.
60.3 % of students usually buy this way, as opposed to 29.1 % buying on
campus and 5.1 % buying
at other
bookstores.
The bottom line is that you don't need to buy a book
at full price just because that's what the
campus bookstore offers.
I would go around
at the end of every semester and scoop up used textbooks that students could not sell back to the on
campus bookstore.
My side hustle originated because of my proximity to a product source (I lived close to
campus), my familiarity with the market (I knew that students had trouble selling used textbooks back to the
bookstore), and my willingness to hustle (I hung out
at the textbooks sell - back trailers and talked to students after work).
If you have a student card loaded with a certain amount of money that you can spend in the
campus bookstore, eateries, grocery, or
at select local businesses, don't let that prepaid discretionary income go to waste!
Following this, the university announced it would start accepting bitcoin payments
at a
bookstore on
campus in May - later installing bitcoin ATMs
at three of its stores.