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Hillsborough Community College
Buyback Policy
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The HCC Bookstores operate a daily textbook buyback program that allows students to sell their textbooks back to the Bookstore. The HCC Bookstores have set a goal to increase the quantity of used condition textbooks available for sale to students. In an effort to achieve this goal and encourage all students to sell their textbooks back to the Bookstore, the HCC Bookstores will purchase any textbook, that is eligible for the Textbook Buyback program, for 50% of its retail price. This should allow the HCC Bookstores to purchase the maximum amount of textbooks allowable through the Textbook Buyback program.
The reason a textbook may not be purchased is based on the following criteria:
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The textbook is not adopted for a class being taught the following semester.
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The textbook has a consumable component. (Ex. limited access software, perferrated pages, etc.)
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The textbook is sold as a package, all components in the package are required for a course, and one or more of the components of the package are consumable.
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The textbook is damaged and is not in resalable condition.
In an effort to increase the number of books purchased from students, the HCC Bookstore invites natioanl textbook wholesaler companies into their store at the beginning and end of each semester. These companies offer to buy textbooks from students that are not being bought by the HCC Bookstore. The prices they offer to students are based on the demand for the textbook on a national level. These national textbook wholesalers usually pay students less than 50% of the retail price.
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