A Report on the Feasibility of Textbook Rental - IBHE

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• Prohibit community college and public university faculty, staff, and academicdepartments from receiving payment in exchange for the selection of required textbooksexcept for compensation or royalties from an instructor’s own work.• Require textbooks to be sold separately when a textbook is sold as a package with otherstudy materials (unbundling).• Require publishers to provide faculty members with the publisher’s price of coursematerials sold to the bookstore and the revision history of course materials.• Facilitate website links for students to access book swaps.• Support a public information campaign to increase awareness among faculty regardingtextbook prices and the timely submission of textbook selections.Administration• Adopt policies to promote existing book buy-back programs, including encouragingfaculty to reuse textbooks and enforcing deadlines for textbook adoption orders tomaximize the quantity of used textbooks available to students.• Place course materials on reserve at academic departments and/or libraries for students.• Post a list of course materials, including the ISBN number (a universal book identifier)and new and used textbook prices, at least 60 days before classes begin to enable studentsto comparison shop for textbooks.• Establish Textbook Advisory Committees to set and enforce textbook profit caps atcampus bookstores, new edition adoptions, and other policies.Faculty• Adhere to the textbook selection deadline to help ensure an adequate supply of usedbooks is available.• Place course materials on reserve at academic departments and/or libraries for students.• Adopt new editions only when changes are determined to be significant by the adopter.• Offer e-books, e-reserves, i-chapters, and custom books to students.Publishers• Provide complimentary copies of selected textbooks to be used in the classroom orlibrary.• Offer bundled materials as separate items for purchase.• Provide faculty members with the publisher’s price of course materials sold to thebookstore and the revision history of course materials.-10-
ConclusionTextbook rental programs and alternative cost-saving measures could help reduce thefinancial burden on students and families from escalating textbook costs. For such efforts to besuccessful, however, they will need the support of institutional administrators, students, faculty,bookstore operators, and publishers. Some states have found legislative action an effective tool toencourage efforts to curtail textbook costs. State assistance in procuring funds for start-up costswould be vital to the success of textbook rental programs.-11-
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Page 7 and 8: EXECUTIVE SUMMARYGrowing apprehensi
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Page 13 and 14: INTRODUCTIONAcross the nation, the
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universities and the largest univer
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separately and be stuck with any co
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supports informed decision making.
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From: Brad O'Brien [mailto:bobrien@
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more used books benefits both the b
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Comments submitted on IBHE website:
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