The entrance to the DU Bookstore

where students come to

purchase, rent, and sell course

books for their classes. Which has

recently come under new

ownership by Follet. Since the

takeover students have found it

increasingly difficult to find all the

text books for their classes.

Some books are in

stock, but other

shelves are empty and

have no books with

backorder forms in

their place.

Students Sam Thomsen

and Jens Olsen said

they haven't seen this

many empty shelves in

their tenure at DU, or

had any trouble

obtaining their books

before this quarter.

Head of the

Undergraduate

Department of English

also says she has never

encountered this

problem and says

Follett's “corporate

business model that

comes in and replaces

the bottom line with

profit rather than

students” as the

problem.

Student Sam Tomsen

looks to buy his Intro to

American Politics

textbooks from the

bookstore, but is only

able to find back order

instead of his required

books.

Communication text books are a hot commodity flying off the shelves faster than students get their hands on them. Once again backorder forms are put in their place.

Students are helped

by the University of

Denver Bookstore

staff to check out the

books that were still

available.

Some text

books were

still in stock

and plenty of

students were

able to stay

on par with

their readings.

While students like Jens Olsen and Sam Thomsen were able to get a couple

of books they could not get all of them for the start of their classes. This

student was able to buy a couple books, but still had to order more.

A back order form sits

on the shelf where

course books for the

4000 level Health

Care class should be.

The book store offered

free two day shipping,

to students who went

through the order

form process, but

they couldn’t always

deliver. Jens Olsen

said “the bookstore

said ‘well we will get

the books to you in

two days,’ but it took

a week and a half to

get it into the store.”

Some students like Jens Olsen (pictured above) and Sam Thomsen had over 100 pages

of reading to catch up on.

Students have

turned to

Amazon to buy

there books

citing fast

shipping and

cheaper prices

as reasons why.

The DU

Bookstore

offers Intro to

Economics

for $206.75

for a new

copy and

$155.25 for a

used edition.

Amazon offers the same textbook, Intro to Econometrics for 25 percent

($51.36) less than the University of Denver Bookstore for a new

copy, and $35.25 less for a used copy.

The effects of lack of textbooks has been evident. “Well one of the classes we have been

having daily quizzes on the reading and I didn’t get my book until [2 weeks after class

began]…it has definitely been hurting my grade.” Said Jens Olsen