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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Are students required to only buy from the college bookstore?\
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No, they are able to purchase their textbooks elsewhere; however, the college requires that I work through the campus bookstore. If I was higher on the totem poll--I'm just an adjunct--I might be able to circumvent the bookstore. I would also have things like health insurance and paid time off, so there you go.
I always try to select a course reader with a "without readings" version since that is generally cheaper. As long as my students come prepared for class, it makes no different to me how they acquired the books or readings.
Our bookstore will only order enough books for 80% of the students in a class since they anticipate that some students will purchase their books elsewhere. The publishers charge a "restocking" fee for returned books, so the bookstore manager dislikes purchasing more than are needed. Of course, this practice means that I have to push my lessons back by a week because ~6 students will be waiting for their books to arrive from Amazon.