Selling your textbooks
Each semester we buy back textbooks to give you extra cash and to provide a larger used book selection for next semester. Book buyback allows you to save more money on textbook costs and provides you with money for books you no longer want.
University Book & Supply buys year around with the last
two weeks of each fall and spring semester and 2-3 days at the conclusion of
summer session as the prime time.
Our upcoming prime time for Winter 2010 will
be December 6 - 17.
Reasons affecting the price offered for your
book...
1. Condition of the book.
2. Bookstore is overstocked.
3. Instructor has chosen to use book.
4. National demand for book.
5. New edition has been published.
6. Instructor will not use book or is undecided.
Watch this fun clip from the Used Textbook Association.
1. Where can I sell my books?
Throughout the year, we will buy back textbooks. During the last two weeks of each semester, we set up special locations in
the lower level at both front and back locations. Please watch for signs upon
entering store.
2. Which books will you buy?
Any textbook, even if bought at another store, is potentially eligible for
buyback. Texts coming out in a new edition, cannot be bought back unless the
professor has specified the older edition. Study and lab materials, certain
texts with software, and custom published materials are generally not eligible
for buyback. Texts with missing pages or excessive damage will also not be
bought back.
3. How much are my books worth?
During the last two weeks of the semester, if your textbook has been reordered
by a UNI instructor for the upcoming semester and meets the above criteria, you
will get 50% of the new price regardless of whether you bought the book new or
used. This price will be affected, though, by class size. Once we become
overstocked for our upcoming semester, the national wholesale price will be
offered.
Buy back of texts not reordered by UNI professors will be quoted at a national
wholesale company value for your books. Generally, their pricing is 25% or less
of the original price of the textbook.
4. Why are books not used locally worth less?
Texts which are not going to be used on the UNI campus are bought for
national book wholesalers for the national market. The wholesaler ships,
warehouses, and markets these books to other stores. We pay students the amount
a wholesaler will pay us for these books.
