Textbooks

Buying Textbooks

Course Materials areonly可在网上订购bookstore.m.icarseries.com. All course materials must be ordered online, as textbooks are no longer shelved in the bookstore. Books are pulled and packed for you by our bookstore team with fast turnaround times. We provide convenient in-store pick throughout the school year. You will receive an email from the bookstore when your order is ready for pick up! Remember toshop earlyfor the best selection of used books!

Book Prices and Used Books

Textbook prices can vary widely, often depending upon your major and year of study. The good news? Textbook prices have been declining steadily now for the past 8–10 years, and the bookstore offers a great selection of new and used books. We actively procure as many used copies of books as possible, and our students are still our number one source for used books — so please make every effort to sell your books back to the bookstore at the end of each semester. Book buyback is a great way to keep your course material costs to a minimum. More on book buyback later!

Also, please note that used books are not always available for all classes; as you get into your major with more specific topics, used copies may be more difficult to obtain.

Digital Books

A growing trend with higher education publishers is to offer less expensive digital options. Digital books, (also called e-books) may be available as a substitute for a print or bound book. The bookstore, working to keep student textbooks costs to a minimum, will offer a digital option when available. We work with our third-party digital provider, VitalSource, to offer digital books when approved by faculty. Digital books listed on our website can be charged to your student account or paid by credit card. Students will receive an email fromdo.not.reply@vitalsource.com,where you will be prompted to register you digital book on VitalSource’s e-book platform, Bookshelf, found atbookshelf.vitalsource.com.

Digital booksnotfound through our bookstore website, may be available through our white label store,hopecollege.vitalsource.com. Search by the author, title or ISBN to see if the book you need is available in digital format.

Unavailable Books

Several factors may affect bookstore inventory and the number of copies that are ordered. Enrollment fluctuations, publisher backorders, old edition inventory, marketplace pricing and digital book options all play a factor in the number of copies the bookstore stocks. Faculty may also add titles to their courses at any time. Typically, bookstore inventory is set 3–4 weeks before classes start. If you cannot locate a book you need, please reach out to the bookstore. We will reorder a copy for you when inventory is available.

Vouchers & Coursepacks

Some items sold at the bookstore are unique to Hope College and not available from online sources or other bookstores. Such is the case with vouchers and coursepacks sold on our website.

Vouchers are required for students to purchase in order to supply students with items or provide services used in some classes. This may include lab handouts, notebooks, photocopy costs, theater tickets, subscription services, chemistry goggles, etc. Vouchers are purchased through the bookstore, and then students are required to show their receipt of purchase to their professor to receive class materials and services.

Coursepacks are compilations of material from books, magazines, online articles and other sources that allow a professor to create a customized “book” for a class using only materials that will be used during the course. Doing this helps students save by not requiring multiple books for the course, only one comprehensive custom coursepack. The bookstore pays copyright fees attached to this material when creating the course packet for publication. When the same coursepack is reused again, it can be sold at book buyback.

Faculty Services

Textbook Orders for your classroom

As a general rule, textbook adoption forms are due at the bookstore on the following schedule:

• Fall Semester Form:Due late March
• Spring Semester Form:Due late October
• May, June and July terms and Summer Seminars: Due March 1

The bookstore has partnered with VERBA Software to provide an online textbook adoption tool that will help streamline the book adoption process. If you are teaching at Hope College, you will receive a personalized e-mail from the bookstore listing the course(s) and section(s) you are teaching. Simply follow the online process to submit your book orders.

Guidelines

Partial orders are welcome. It is essential to know what books you intend to reuse, both for book buyback and for overstock returns. Do not order a title if you are not sure you’ll use it.

• Use one form per course
• If you do not need books for your course, please tell us
• Supply complete information, including your best estimate of class size
• Sign the form
• Please do not use the phrase “same as before”

If you have any questions, contact Craig Thelen, bookstore director and textbook manager, at 7381 orthelen@m.icarseries.com.

Campus publications

In addition to textbooks, many professors now use campus publications to provide materials and information to their students. Three types of campus publications are supported by the bookstore to meet varying academic needs:

Departmental Publication

Adepartmental publicationis generated by the department — for example, a workbook created by a professor, or the Health Dynamics text authored collectively by kinesiology faculty. Departmental publications have no material that needs copyright permission filed and the production is overseen and paid for by the department.

Coursepacks

If the material you wish to use includes a substantial amount of copyrighted material such as book selections, website material, journal essays or articles, then you need to create acoursepack. The bookstore offers the service of filing for permission and also handles most of the production details.

Coupons

Couponsare the most flexible option we offer. Faculty use coupons, bought by the students at the same time as their textbooks, to cover lab fees, supplies to be handed out in class, audio-visual resource costs and copying costs for incidental handouts.

Desk copies

我们在订购教科书时不考虑复印课桌。如果你需要复印本，请直接向出版商订购。如果您预期需要在您的书到达之前从书店借阅任何书籍，请在您的教科书收养表格上注明信息。

Student textbook Reorders

The bookstore does not automatically re-order textbooks that we run out of at the beginning of the semester. We purchase only what the actual enrollment numbers predict each class will need. If the enrollment of a particular course fluctuates during the drop/add period and some of your students find that required titles are sold out at the bookstore, please encourage them to contact us so we can place a rush order for the books they need.