Faculty Book Adoptions
Department Coordinators can click on the Faculty button and access the screen to enter their instructor’s text selections. By entering the term, course and call numbers the Department Coordinators can access past term book history. If the same text is being reused a simple click will ensure the accuracy needed. When the adoption is picked up on the Bookstore side, an automatic response is sent back to the Department Coordinator. The response states the class the adoption was for, the ISBN, Title, Author, and whether the book is required or optional. The online adoption process is the easiest and most accurate way to send in the next terms text requests.

Faculty Center Network The FCN provides a one-step resource for faculty to review textbooks and make informed decisions about textbook adoptions. Faculty can search or browse the bibliographic database of over 225,000 titles, review detailed information about the book, and create an adoptions list from the site.

Faculty Authors
The BGSU Bookstore has a wide selection of BGSU Faculty Authors. Located on the second floor in the general book section, you can find a wide variety of titles from the sciences, to popular culture, to history. The Bookstore is pleased to offer these titles that represent terrific faculty that we have here on campus, and we are always looking for new titles.

Digital Textbooks
The BGSU Bookstore has been participating in the digital textbook program or eBooks since August, 2005. They are sold for less than the new book price. The percentage off varies by publisher, 20 to 35% less than new, but are generally around the price of a used book. "Universal Digital Textbooks” or eBooks are listed as an option when available on the student’s booklist. Not every title is available in the digital format, but new titles are added to the format all the time. They can be purchase in store or on line through the bookstore’s web site. We are pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this program because of the potential opportunity to lower the high cost of textbooks for BGSU students by offering the digital textbook alternative. 

Textbook Rentals
The BGSU Bookstore was the first in Ohio to offer the rental textbooks as an option beginning with the pilot program in the spring of 2008. In addition to new, used, and possibly eBooks, Rental textbooks are made available when qualifying criteria are met, including a four semester commitment from a department to use the same edition of the book.

Books considered for rental must meet some basic criteria.
a. New Edition
b. Two year adoption, covering a minimum of four semesters.
c. One semester books only. Books that are used by students for two consecutive semesters are not eligible.
d. Course frequency. Courses that are taught both fall and spring semesters.
e. Core classes. Either general education or core classes for a certain major are eligible. There must be at least multiple sections using the same book.
f. Non-bundled textbook. Supplementary components will not be eligible for rental although we may be able to sell them separately.
g. Continue to submit your requests for rental books along with your textbook requisition to your department’s textbook coordinator each semester.

These books are rented at 40% of the new book price, saving the student up front out of pocket expense. Students can highlight in the books as if they owned them and intend to sell at buyback. When the book is returned by the due date, in good condition, there is no other cost. Failure to return by the due date, or returned in unusable condition, the student is then liable for a replacement book.