We offer a year round textbook buy back service in our Customer Service Area on the upper level of the Schine Student Center Bookstore.

Before you sell your books to any other bookstore or individual, make sure you are getting the best possible price! Prices paid by the Syracuse University Bookstore are, in most cases, equal or greater than those paid by others.

Note that:

• Recycling your books is good for the environment and lowers the price of textbooks
  
• Books with writing or highlighting may have value
  
• The book prices are determined by the authors and publishers
  
• Wholesale prices are based on national supply and demand

Remember that the Syracuse University Bookstore is owned and operated by Syracuse University. Income from operations is used to support a wide variety of University and student activities.

What you need to know about selling your used textbooks:

Retail (the best offer)	We will pay up to 50% of the current retail price providing the textbook will be required for the next term (we must have an order from the faculty) is needed to fill next term's orders is in reusable condition
Wholesale (the next best offer)	For books having national demand, the Bookstore may pay 15% to 40% of the current retail price Discontinued books are shipped to a wholesaler who recycles them to other colleges and universities where they are needed.

Our goal is to buy back as many of your books at 50% as possible regardless of where you bought them.

We do not buy instructor's desk copies. We are also unable to buy used books if there is an overstock of inventory. For your protection and to ensure against the risk of a computer virus, The University Bookstore has chosen not to buy back software included in textbook packages. We may offer a reduced buyback price paid for the textbook without the software. Our wholesaler may elect to purchase textbook/software packages and will base that on national need.