Bob- Out campus has a B&N bookstore so we will have rentals this year. We are given the choice to have our texts available or not within the program. I tend to allow the students to decide though I send out notes to my classes with my thoughts on the idea. One of those thoughts is that I don't support any particular method of text acquisition. My own method was to buy them and hold them. Much the same as you report, I still have my intro book from 1972! My message is primarily that they buy their own copy (or somehow have a physical copy!) and that they use it in the recommended manner (taking notes, reading actively, asking questions, actively engaging the text. . . ). But given that the average student today seems to buy the text and sell it back at the end of the term I don't really see that the rental idea is such a problem. A few bookstores will even give more "buy back" credit or cash if the book is pristine! From that standpoint, I'd rather them rent since it doesn't matter if they mark it up. Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu
teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker ________________________________________ From: Dr. Bob Wildblood [drb...@rcn.com] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:53 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Textbook rentals? I don't know about today, but when I was a student at Purdue University from 1964 - 1970, both Southworth's and University Book Store had a policy of buy a new book pay full price. Turn it in at the end of the semester and get 50% back. They then sold used books at 75% of the new book price and again, turned in they gave 50% of the price paid. I didn't turn many books back except those that were for courses that I decided were only required for the degree outside of psychology courses, and I kept a lot of those as well. I still have on my shelf a couple of those books including a very early edition of Hall & Lindzey's _Theories of Personality_ . --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=3739 or send a blank email to leave-3739-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
