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We now offer a custom publishing service. We handle all copyrights, royalties, and printing.
IMPORTANT INFO ON TEXTBOOK BUNDLINGPlease send in your orders as soon as possible.
If you don't let us know what book your using your students may have to special order the book and they won't get it as quickly.
Also, when we purchase back the book the buyback prices we give to students will DRASTICALLY INCREASE if we know you're
using it again the next semester.
Your students will thank you for placing your book orders with us,
it saves them money, lots of money.
CCSU is a public institution, and your textbook orders are considered public
information. If you choose to place your textbook orders with us,
university policy allows you to do so.
Booklist Availability Information (FOI): Connecticut
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Accessible Records Defined: "'Public records or files' means any recorded data or information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, received or retained by a public agency..." Conn. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 1-200(5). "Nothing...shall be construed to require disclosure of...(5) trade secrets, which...are defined as unpatented, secret, commercially valuable plans, appliances, formulas, or processes, which are used for the making, preparing, compounding, treating or processing of articles or materials which are trade commodities obtained from a person and which are recognized by law as confidential, and commercial or financial information given in confidence, not required by statute..." Conn. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 1-210(b).
Another Bookstore, fully supports the CCSU Academic Community. We will donate money, products, and our time to any and all campus activities! We also provide book scholarships to local high schools and donate to many national & international charity organizations.
Please Ask Us How We Can Help.
Reasons to place your order with us
You help keep the cost of textbooks down. Without competition, prices can, and will, skyrocket.
Competition ensures the best customer service for both you and your students.
You ensure that there will be enough textbooks for all your students. Campus Bookstores rarely order 100% of the books you need for your class. This simply isn't done as many students purchase their books online, share them with other students or get them from other sources.
By having your order at more than 1 store, the chances of both stores running out of your textbooks is kept to a minimum.
You allow a much greater price to be given to students when/if they sell their books back at the end of the semester. Students can get up to 50%, or sometimes more, of what they paid if we know you will be using the same book. Due to the high cost of books, we can not keep every book we buy back from students, so we usually send most of the books we do not have orders for to various wholesalers.
We're local and independent. No corporate headquarters in another state. All CSU bookstores are owned by Barnes & Noble.
We provide solid full time employment with health benefits to four former CCSU students. We provide part time employment to many CCSU students throughout the year.
Please place your book orders as soon as possible
When you wait until the last minute to order texts, it forces us to pay high rush shipping costs, a cost which gets passed on to students. Last minute orders also prevent us from ordering less expensive, used copies.
Some other tips on helping us keep textbook prices down!
Don't get talked into using special "packages" from publishers, unless you actually, really, require everything in the package.
Publishers will try and convince you that packaging a workbook, lab book, CD, etc. will save students money. This is wrong because it forces the bookstore to purchase the package new from the publisher instead of finding used, cheaper copies of the main text from other sources. If you are using a packaged set now, ask your students if they actually use all those little extras in it. Even if a study guide is packaged free with a new textbook, don't ask for the package, unless you actually require the study guide. Sure, it sounds like they are getting a deal, but they still pay more money than a used copy of the textbook alone. Packages also make it VERY difficult for students to return or sell back their textbooks. If the shrink wrap is broken, we can't take back the package if the student drops your class. During buyback, those extra components in the package are usually worthless, so the students only sell back the main text, which isn't worth as much to us because we won't be selling just the textbook if you keep using the package. So we send these precious used copies to other schools to use.
Try using the same edition of your textbooks for at least 2 years, even after a new edition comes out.
In an effort to battle the used book industry, publishers push out new editions of their textbooks on an average of every 18 months. The average when we started in this industry was 5 years. Make sure you get a review copy of the new edition, and compare it to older ones. You'll see that for most subject areas, very little will have changed. More glossy pictures, a new type of font...
Give me (Rob Cosgrove) a call, I'll be more than happy to discuss the prices of the textbooks you wish to use.
I will certainly order whatever you need for you classes, but with a little effort you can save your students a lot of money.
ALL Faculty Receives a 20% Discount!
In an effort to fully support the CCSU academic community we offer a 20% disount to anyone who works for CCSU. This discount can be used on most items with the exception of computer software, clearence merchandise.