We are using www.varsitybooks.com (they are owned by Follet) and we also
post a pdf of our book list on our website so that families can buy the
books cheaper on half.com if they are available. Varsity gives us
excellent service, an annual kick-back, an on-site buy-back in June and
tries to get us many free teacher's editions. I highly recommend them. The
key for us is having someone in your office who meticulously checks ISBN
#'s on both lists for accuracy and having a few spares on campus because
someone always purchases the wrong edition. We are actually hoping to move
away from commercial textbooks soon and try to use public domain on-line
texts to reduce costs for our families. Anyone have any good sources for
this?
Ken Weinstein
Maimonides Upper School
Brookline, MA
www.maimonides.org
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM -0400 wrote:
>Greetings. I am wondering how many of your schools have transitioned to =
>an online system for distrubuting textbooks. Specifically:
>
>1) What method do you use for getting textbooks into the hands of your =
>students?
>
>2) have any of you experimented with giving parents a list of books and =
>ISBN's and turning the process over to them completely?
>
>3) Do any of your schools use an online store?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Dean J. Fusto
>Head of Upper School
>Assistant Head of School
>www.bement.org
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