Show New and used books scholarships and giveaways Brian Short Contributing Writer The Bookstore is ready for fall semester At a college bookstore getting ready for a new semester takes a lot of planning This year year the ther r Bookstores are ready with stocked shelves new incentives and a few new competitive ideas to keep up with growing competition Its a little bit like Christmas you work and work and work and in a couple of hours its it's all allover over with says Steve Ferre Director at The bookstore works to tomake tomake tomake make sure they can be prepared with enough books for the new semester In fact they start planning around March for fot Fall Semester f We Ve are Working with wholesalers all the time to toI I maximize the amount of used books we can get says Marianne A Gines Textbook Manager at Gines works hard to stock the shelves full especially with used books because she knows it saves students money Stocked shelves arent aren't the only things Gines works hard to fill She also is constantly working hard to fill students wallets with money from scholarships and giveaways r M 1 I t rj I t V 4 ty- ty x i y rk Photo by Ani Arakelian student gets help finding textbooks at Redwood Taylorsville Campus bookstore This year we are able to give giveout giveout giveout out six scholarships says Gines U Using sing money gained from buyback week the bookstore is able to offer scholarships to students They also do z a gift card giveaway This semester we are going to have little wishing wells and they are going to have hav little coins in them says Gines A lucky coin will put a gift card to the bookstore into the winning students student's p pocket There will be 25 winners overall The bookstore also offers benefits to make shopping easier for stu students Students can go online and order their textbooks an and the bookstore will box them up up p at atno no extra charge On the other hand if students do not want to deal with crowds and prefer to have their books shipped to them they just need to pay shipping Also the bookstore is tax about a seven percent advantage over going off campus campusand campusand and buying a book says Ferre Since the bookstore is located on a college campus the state of Utah allows this beneficial tax exemption The bookstore is also getting more E-books E available E-books E Tax Free Continued on Tax Free books Continued from Al make it possible for students to buy a subscription instead of a hard copy The books are online so students are able to access access them from any computer that has access to the Internet This offers students a cheaper alternative to a regular hard copy as E-books E are usually priced significantly lower Students even have havethe havethe havethe the option of purchasing chapters individually for select books Though the bookstore always faces competition they do offer a guarantee unmatched by any other option The college bookstore requires that department turn in the selected text to them so they can order them and have them stocked on the shelves before Fall Semester starts By doing this they can be sure that they have the right book in their store You can be 99 percent sure that youre you're getting the right book for the right class in the right version in the right package Says Ferre w i rl J c I |