Welcome to our web site. Here you will find valuable information on the efforts of The East Carolina Coalition for Affordable Textbooks. This collaborative group brings together the students, parents, faculty, and administration of ECU, working together to find ways to reduce the overall cost of textbooks for students.
This is an ongoing project, and we welcome your ideas.
FOR FACULTY:
→ Please remind your students to save their receipts for textbooks! This is critical for book returns!
→ Textbook Requisitioning is ONLY done ONLINE effective for the SPRING SEMESTER 2012 textbooks! Course information will be entered by September 27th.October 7th is the deadline for textbook requisitions to be entered; students will register for spring courses October 24th. This time frame is set up due to mandates by the UNC-GA and the HEOA, Higher Education Opportunity Act.
→ Textbook adoptions are available via the Dowdy Student Store Logon Site or through a convenient link on Blackboard. Paper adoption forms are NO LONGER sent to academic departments.
If you have any last-minute adoptions, please contact Katherine Burney or Barbara Ward immediately, 328-6731, or toll-free, 1-877-499-TEXT.
IN-STORE RENTAL PROGRAM
Students can now RENT textbooks at ECU Dowdy Student Stores for select courses! Please consider participating in this cost-saving initiative, when you determine the textbooks for your courses. Instructors must agree to use the textbook for multiple semesters, 2 years is preferred, and without a unique key code, in order to make the program cost-effective for the bookstore. Renting a textbook usually costs 60% less than purchasing the book.
HALF-BACK GUARANTEE
Similar to the rental program, but slightly more flexible, with the ECU Dowdy Student Stores' Half-Back Guarantee program, your students' textbooks are essentially half the price if they sell them back at the end of the semester. By identifying books that can be used for 2 years, and do not contain a unique key code for web-based materials. The Dowdy Student Store textbook department will work with you, checking publication schedules for new editions, etc. If your book qualifies, a Half-Back Guarantee sticker will be placed on the book, alerting students that at the end of the semester they will be given 50% of the selling price back in cash.
DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS
To find out if your course textbook is available in digital format (eTextbook), go to the ECU Dowdy Student Stores web site and click on the CourseSmart link. This is an ECU partner vendor that works with many of our textbook publishers to make these lower-cost textbook alternatives available to students. Please use the link from the Dowdy Student Stores web site so that ECU will get credit for the sale. ALSO, when talking with students about digital format textbooks, be sure to point out that they have no resale value, and that duplicating materials from a digital textbook is an illegal copyright infringement.
COURSE PACKS
If you have any questions about Course Pack production, please call Shirley Johnson at Dowdy Student Stores, 328-6731, or email her at Johnsonsh@ecu.edu. Information is available on the Student Store web site.
If you run into any problems concerning any class materials, please don't hesitate to contact the Dowdy Student Stores for assistance.
FOR STUDENTS:
→ Save receipts for textbooks! This is critical for book returns!
→ A Discount coupon is available at the beginning of each semester from the Student Store website.
→ If you are interested in using a digital format textbook, you can link to CourseSmart from the ECU Dowdy Student Stores web site. Click on CourseSmart and search for your book title. Be sure to look for the correct edition! Please realize that digital textbooks have no resale value at book buyback. Also know that duplicating/sharing materials from digital textbooks is an illegal copyright infringement.
BOOK BUYBACK
The ECU Dowdy Student Stores offers a Book Buyback program where you can sell your textbooks to be sold next semester or on the used book program for other colleges and universities.
East Carolina is working with NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill in a collaborative book buyback service! If your textbook isn't being used at ECU, but is needed at State or Carolina, we'll buy it back from you for them! You'll get more cash than if it was just being bought for the general used book market!!
→ If your textbook is part of the Dowdy Student Store In-Store RENTAL Program, remember to return your book at the end of the rental program. If your book is part of the Half-Back Guarantee program, do NOT remove the sticker from the textbook. These books can be sold back at the end of the semester for 50% of the purchase price! (See store for program details)
SUGGESTION FORM:
Please use the form below to share any practical ideas or suggestions with the Committee. We welcome input from the ECU community as well as other colleges and universities!
