Friday, January 18, 2008
Monopoly: BYU Bookstore Edition
It’s a week before the beginning of another semester at BYU and the book list for your classes has just been posted. Now, you have a choice in front of you, do you go to the bookstore, fight the crowds in the aisles searching for each and every book on your list, wait in an eternally long line to pay for them and then bag them and carry the hundred pounds of books you just bought back to your apartment, OR search online for your books to save some time and a few dollars and then have to pay an exorbitant price for the 2-day shipping to get it delivered to your apartment in time for your first class. But, you can’t even go the online route because about half of the books on your list are BYU editions and are not sold anywhere other than in the BYU Bookstore so you have to fight the crowds at the bookstore anyway. In addition, when you go to sell back the books at the end of the semester, they have changed a few words in the edition you have now and are printing a new edition, so they won’t even take back the book you bought from them in the first place. While I agree that some things like syllabi and lecture notes will need to be bought in the bookstore, I think the system the bookstore has now is unfair to the students and it should be changed.
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The constant edition thing irks me as well. My price for books this semester was nearly $450. Its getting pretty insane.
This was well written and it made me frustrated just by reading it. It is annoying that we only get our book list a week before school starts. They should probably change their policy a little bit to meet the needs and desires of everyone. Good job!
I agree with you completely! The new editions thing really bugs me too. I get so annoyed when I can’t sell back my books.
When I bought my books at the beginning of the semester I was thinking this exact thing. Something needs to be done about it.
Good points. Don't you also love the professors that make you buy a book that they wrote? And I've always wondered, why can't BYU just allow us to rent the books, and pay for damages if we return the book in less than satisfactory conditions?
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