Freed is the first to admit that textbooks aren't cheap. Many books today are five to eight times that amount. And bookstore managers are sympathetic to their concern. Our goal is to keep costs as low as possible. Prices in OCC's Student Bookstore are five percent below the national average.
Textbooks are costly because they're expensive to produce.
In our store, we make just three cents per dollar on a textbook. Freed says an exciting aspect of OCC's Student Bookstore is the fact that all profits are returned to the students. When I was at New Mexico Junior College, our profits went back into the general fund. Those funds would become mingled with all other college funds and we'd lose track of them. Here at Coast, the Associated Students receive the profits from the store and are allowed to use them any way they see fit to benefit students.