Textbooks are Expensive--Here are a Few Money Saving Tips
Shop early and buy used books! We know the price of textbooks is high, and we try to do everything we can to keep the costs low. The first thing we do is carry as many used books as possible, because they save you 25% off the new price of the book. University Bookstore carries more used books than just about anyone in the country. Everybody wants used books, so encourage your student to shop for their books as soon as they can.
Return a book promptly if a class has been dropped or if the professor has decided not to teach from the text. The bookstore only carries those items requested by the instructor. We try to make this easy. Students can get a full refund through the first two weeks in the fall and winter semester with an original receipt and in its original condition. (The bookstore limits the refund period to the first two weeks of class because most publishers require that we return books to them by a certain date.)
3. Have your student sell her/his books at the end of the semester. Our first source for used books is your student! If an instructor has requested a textbook for the next semester, University Bookstore will pay students 50% of the new price until their orders are filled. If the book is not being used, we will contract with a company to buy the book from your student for a wholesale price (this is not for the MU campus).
4. Sign up for Buyback Alerts. Don’t have your student haul every book to the store without first signing up for MU Bookstore used book alerts. These alerts will notify your student when a book can be sold back and the amount. It is also a good reminder to sell the book back.
5. Have your student visit the mubookstore.com website and sell a book using our peer to peer used book classified.
6. Visit www.sellmytextbooks.org