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Bookstores are not only crowd- tl
ed with students buying books 1>
for the semester, but with 1c
students stealing other's books,
said University Bookstore's Bill
Rorie. B
"At this time of the year, n
students should be extremely si
careful with their books and not n
leave them on tables or floors
unattended," said Rorie. ti
Although the University tl
Bookstore furnishes students f
with free lockers and with posted s
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Business editor
Students who buy new books at the beginning of
the semester will get a higher percentage of their
money back when they resell the books, providing
- tcachcrs plan to use the book again, said Dennis
Beard of the South Carolina Bookstore.
But Bill Rorie of the University Bookstore said
students are always better off buying used books.
When the South Carolina Bookstore buys a book
from a student, it pays half of what the student
originally paid for the book.
If the student bought the book new, he will get
half of the new price when he resells if the university
will be using the book again. But if the student
bought the book used, he will only get half of the
used price, Beard said.
When the University Bookstore buys books from
students, it pays half of the book's current market
value, providing the book will be reused.
So if the price of the book goes up during the
semester, students get more than half price,but if it
ones down, students cet less. Rorie said the Drices of
books often increase.
Neither the University nor the South Carolina
bookstore will buy back books that have new editions
coming out because students will have no use
for them and the old editions can't be sold to used
book companies.
Used book companies are warehouses around the
country that buy used books or books that
bookstores couldn't sell in one region. These book
companies then sell them to bookstores in other
areas that will be using the books.
"We can pay the same price for books at the used
book company that we pay to students,but we don't
have to pay the freight-in and go through the ordering
process," Rorie said.
"I don't speculate about buying books, because it
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is the university's money I'm spending," he said,
"but I'm not saying that we're infallible. Sometimes
we buy books not being used."
Beard said the South Carolina Bookstore docs
speculate sometimes and they will buy back all trade
books, which includes paperback classics,
regardless of whether the university will be using the ^
book or not. ?
"You can usually expect a new edition to come
out about every two to three years," Rorie said, but
lately some books' editions have only lasted one
year.
Summer school instructors who don't regularly
teach the course will often order books that won't
be reused, Beard said, and the students who have
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Rorie said he also has problems with buying
books from students for classes such as freshman
English.
"In the fall, you may have 2,000 freshmen taking
English 101 and the next spring, you may have only ?
100."
Rorie said in cases like that, he usually buys back
only the first 110 books and advises the other
students to hold their books.
"Anytime you hold a book, you're taking a gamble,"
Rorie said, "but if you are not in the first 110
booksellers, you stand to gain something."
"The best time to sell books for the top dollar is
during the week of exams," Rorie said, because the
bookstores then have the most information about
books that will be used, and a student can beat the
crowd.
Both booksellers said about 80 percent to 90 percent
of the people who buy books resell them at the ^
end of the semester. And many students are disap- w
nointed when the store can't buy the books or are
disappointed with the prices they get for the books.
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