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Subject: Campus bookstore must provide list of books to other book vendors
Category: Reference, Education and News > Teaching and Research
Asked by: owentbrown-ga
List Price: $20.00
Posted: 16 Jul 2002 09:28 PDT
Expires: 15 Aug 2002 09:28 PDT
Question ID: 40153
I'm starting a book swapping service at Georgia Tech, UGA, and as many
other schools in Georgia as possible.  For my service to work, i need
a list of all the books that will be used and by what classes and what
professors.

According to Georgia law, if a book vendor other than the official
campus bookstore wants to provide books for students, the university
is obligated to give him the complete list of what books will be used
by what professors for what classes, and they are obligated to get him
this information as soon as it is in their possesion.

I need to know BOTH the exact details of this law And if such a law
exist in Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennesee, and
Florida.

Also, as a side note: I will give an additional 20 dollars through
paypal to whoever answers this question to my satisfaction if they
will give me a 30 minute phone interview so i can ask them about how
to become better at finding information online.
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Subject: Re: Campus bookstore must provide list of books to other book vendors
From: jes5199-ga on 16 Jul 2002 10:27 PDT
 
i've been searching Georgia law at http://www.romingerlegal.com/state/georgia.html
and have come up with nothing so far
Subject: Re: Campus bookstore must provide list of books to other book vendors
From: starrebekah-ga on 16 Jul 2002 10:44 PDT
 
Okay, here's part of Georgia law that says basically that any book
seller cannot refuse to sell to another book seller, based upon the
fact that they can then resell it cheaper.  (So the Universities can't
REFUSE to sell books to you based on the fact that you're going to
take away their business) :
http://www.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/pub/ocode/ocgsearch?docname=OCode/G/10/1/330&highlight=book|sell

The only thing that I can find in Georgia code about University
bookstores having to keep lists, is that they must make their
lists/fees/other financial info available to the state system:
http://www.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/pub/ocode/ocgsearch?docname=OCode/G/50/30/6&highlight=university|book

I looked through several of these, and the above two are the only ones
I found that had ANY reference to what you're talking about.   IF
you'd like to look for yourself, you can do so at:
http://www.state.ga.us/services/ocode/ocgsearch.htm

Here's a link that may be very valuable to you, it's for publishers
and booksellers, with articles, explanation of laws, copyrights,
forums, places to find rare books, etc.  The link is:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/internet/news/publish.html

Here's an article about a similar vendor selling books to Emory and
other Georgia students
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2002/February/erFeb.18/2_18_02bookstore.html

I want to post this now before it's locked (I'm not an official
researcher :()  and they won't let me post it, but I will keep looking
for you, and on the other states as well.

Hope this helps,

-Rebekah
Subject: Re: Campus bookstore must provide list of books to other book vendors
From: starrebekah-ga on 16 Jul 2002 10:52 PDT
 
Just wanted to add, before I forget -  I think it might be interesting
to you to know that my University (Loyola New Orleans) started an
interesting pilot book swap program.  When Students finish a semester,
instead of selling the books back to the University Bookstore for 1/8
of what they bought it for, they can place it in the bookswap program.
 They place a "reserve price" on the item (i.e., you can't sell it for
under $20) It sits in a room for a few weeks, while other students
(who are now taking the class) come in and "bid" on it.  All parties
win, because the new students bidding get it for substantially less
than they could buy it at the bookstore (and they agreed on the
price), and the students selling got a reasonable value back. At the
end of the period, the students are called back to claim their money
or their unsold books.
Here's an article that partially describes its success:
http://www.loyno.edu/~jrjoseph/beat5.html

Hope that was of interest to you,
Rebekah
Subject: Re: Campus bookstore must provide list of books to other book vendors
From: rmg-ga on 17 Jul 2002 18:40 PDT
 
Actually, Rebekah's second link (the one that says University
bookstores have to keep lists) refers specifically to the Georgia
Institute for Community Business Development of the State of Georgia.

http://www.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/pub/ocode/ocgsearch?docname=OCode/G/50/30/2

The above is the link to the statute that establishes the Institute,
and if you click "Next", you will view other statutes that regulate
various aspects of the Institute's operations. After about four or
five clicks on "Next", you come to the statute Rebekah found, and it
is still referring to Georgia Institute for Community Business.
Subject: Re: Campus bookstore must provide list of books to other book vendors
From: nuvay-ga on 18 Jul 2002 12:08 PDT
 
It is cool to see that you are considering doing this.  I had a very
similar idea for doing this service for colleges in Atlanta with
everything online.  I never researched the laws to find out that the
university must give lists to book vendors.  I have a small web
service company and have lots of experience putting databases, etc.
online.  If you are interesting in doing something like that, maybe I
can do the online/technology part & you can do the business end. 
Please email me at info@nuvay.com.

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