Dates

 

Purpose
 

The purpose of Buyback is to give the students an opportunity to recycle their unwanted textbooks for cash at the semester's end and, at the same time, provide students in the upcoming semester with more used books as an alternative to new books. 

The Value of Your Used Book

The value of your used book is truly market or demand driven. Books that have been adopted by instructors for re-use in the upcoming semester at TVCC bring the highest buyback price - 50% of the publisher's list price. Books that aren't being used at TVCC may be bought back by a wholesaler for the national market. Since the wholesaler has to ship books back to their warehouse, restock them and then resell them to other college stores, they naturally pay less than the bookstore does for the books that are staying on campus. The wholesaler determines the price they'll pay at buyback by tracking national demand for books and the publisher's revision cycles. The wholesaler's prices for your books range from 0-33% of the publisher's list price generally. 

Why You Get What You Get:

	Your professor readopted the book for the next term - or didn't.
	We already have a gazillion of 'em in our store, so we can't use it here.
	It isn't needed here, but it's needed on other campuses. Demand determines value.
	The new edition is in, so the old edition is out.
	Your book looks like it's been through a tornado.