Online bookstore solutions. (Letters).I read with interest your article "The Big-Business Bookstore" in the July/August edition. The author writes about many of the challenges that universities confront in operating a school bookstore, however she did not present fully the options available for small colleges or for institutions of any size that serve nontraditional Adj. 1. nontraditional - not conforming to or in accord with tradition; "nontraditional designs"; "nontraditional practices" untraditional traditional - consisting of or derived from tradition; "traditional history"; "traditional morality" students. Many of these schools do not have (or choose not to spend) the resources needed to engage professional consultants, do not meet the requirements of contract management companies, or simply do not want to outsource outsource verb To assign specific work to a 3rd party for a specific length of time at an set price and service level Managed care To use outside labor to perform functions–billing and collections, accounting, janitorial services, ER their entire campus bookstore to a large corporation. Increasingly, schools are opting for online bookstore alternatives to meet their textbook textbook Informatics A treatise on a particular subject. See Bible. and learning materials needs. Online solutions, such as the VarsityBooks.com eduPartners program, can be an attractive way for schools to resolve financial and operational challenges inherent in running a physical bookstore (including freeing up valuable space and capital), while meeting the needs of their entire school community. Presently, we have the privilege A permission or right. In information security, it refers to the modes of operation that a user or a process is granted. Examples include user-level privilege, operator privilege and supervisory privilege. of serving over 135 educational institutions with our eduPartners program. Our schools find that by partnering with us to meet their textbook needs, they can enjoy the best of all worlds; they are able to eliminate costs and inefficiencies, better serve all of their students, and maintain their independence. The feedback that we receive from colleges and universities indicates that the success of programs such as ours is, at last, providing them with a real solution. ERIC KUHN, President & CEO VarsityBooks.com |
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