A Report on the Feasibility of Textbook Rental - IBHE

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APPENDIX CTextbook Surveys – Community Colleges and Public Universities, Third-Party BookstoresCampus:Contact Name and Position:Contact Phone:Contact E-mail:Textbook Rental:1. Please describe foreseeable benefits of a textbook rental program.2. Please describe foreseeable costs of operating a textbook rental program at your institution.3. Please describe any contract and/or lease agreements that may be impacted by a textbookrental program.4. Please provide the names of any local bookstores providing textbooks to students enrolledat your institution.5. Do you believe it would be feasible to have a textbook rental program exclusively forgeneral education courses?6. Please describe how a textbook rental program might be affected by faculty contracts.7. Please describe storage issues arising from a textbook rental program.8. Please estimate the numbers of years a textbook would have to be used to justify the costunder a textbook rental program.9. Please describe any foreseeable legal issues related to a textbook rental program.10. Please describe the impact a textbook rental program may have on enrollment.11. Please describe the impact of a textbook rental program on students.12. Please describe the impact of a textbook rental program on employment at yourinstitution.13. Per semester, what is the average cost to full-time undergraduate students of textbookspurchases?14. Please describe plans your institution has considered related to a textbook rental program.-56-
Funding:1. Please provide an itemized spreadsheet with estimated start-up costs and estimatedannual costs of a textbook rental program at your institution. For your convenience,the following table includes cost areas submitted by institutions to IBHE in 2004.Please be as specific as possible.ESTIMATED START-UP COSTESTIMATED ANNUAL COSTAdvertising/MarketingCommission/Contract/Lease LossComputer System/SoftwareContingencyCredit Card FeesEducation & OrientationEmployee BenefitsEquipmentFixtures -General AdministrationHealth InsuranceInventoryOperationOther (Itemized)Personnel (Full-Time)Personnel (Part-Time)PrintingProject SupervisionSpaceSuppliesSystem Design, Testing & Implementation -Advertising/MarketingCommission/Contract/Lease LossComputer System/SoftwareContingencyCredit Card FeesEducationEmployee BenefitsEquipmentGeneral AdministrationHealth InsuranceInventoryOperationOther (Itemized)Personnel (Full-Time)Personnel (Part-Time)PrintingProject SupervisionSpaceSupplies- System Maintenance2. Please provide bookstore revenue and expenditures for the past five years. To theextent possible, please segregate textbook revenue, cost of sales and net revenuefrom all other sales, costs, and revenues.3. How might a textbook rental program impact your institution’s revenue stream?4. If the revenue stream is negatively impacted, please describe how the revenue lostmight be compensated.5. What might the foreseeable fee rate be for a textbook rental program?-57-
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................
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Page 7 and 8: EXECUTIVE SUMMARYGrowing apprehensi
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Page 11 and 12: ConclusionTextbook rental programs
Page 13 and 14: INTRODUCTIONAcross the nation, the
Page 15 and 16: increase in tuition and fees (7 per
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Page 27 and 28: CURRENT ILLINOIS TEXTBOOK RENTAL PR
Page 29 and 30: MethodologyCOSTS AND FEASIBILITY OF
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Page 41 and 42: Impact on Tax Revenue.Property Tax.
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universities and the largest univer
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separately and be stuck with any co
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From: Wilcockson, Mark [mailto:M-Wi
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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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From: Devi Prasad V.Potluri [mailto
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Comments submitted on IBHE website:
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