Faculty Services

FacultyBarnes & Noble’s commitment to higher education is reflected in everything we do. As trusted partners and advocates of your educational mission, we are devoted to helping faculty meet their goals and build the leaders of tomorrow.

We do this through a number of resources, including our Faculty Center Network (FCN – a research database for course textbooks), custom course pack offerings and our easy adoption service that lets faculty submit texts they’ve chosen for classes in multiple ways. Our online adoption service – integrated into every bookstore’s website – offers speed and convenience, plus the ability to access adoption information by course for previous years and search FCN.

Our campus bookstores also feature Faculty Authored Books sections, hosting frequent book signings and events that help highlight the accomplishments of instructors.

 

  • Textbook Rental Program

    Based on student insight, we launched an innovative in-store and online textbook rental program in campuses across the nation. Since the program’s launch, more than 99 percent of students have stated they would rent from their campus bookstore again. But it’s not just students who benefit. Schools that offer rentals keep more textbook dollars on campus. More »

    Registration Integration

    An innovative system that links the school’s course registration site with the bookstore’s website, Registration Integration lets students order textbooks online at the same time they register for courses.

    Cash For Books

    Cash for BooksOur Cash For Books program pays students up to 50 percent for their unwanted textbooks. On many campuses, students can even sell back their textbooks at remote buyback sites across campus at the end of the term.

    Competitive Price Match Program

    Competitive Price Guarantee We match any local brick-and-mortar textbook competitor’s lowest price on new and used textbooks, guaranteeing the best deal for students and ensuring that textbook sales remain on campus.

    Faculty Center Network

    Our online Faculty Center Network (FCN) is a research database of more than 250,000 titles that faculty can explore to choose textbooks for their course curriculum. FCN also includes national textbook rankings that can be sorted according to subject or sales, cross-referenced information on comparable titles for each book and peer reviews on thousands of different titles.

    Course Packs/Custom Textbooks

    Course Packs/Custom TextbooksMany faculty members today prefer creating their own textbooks, integrating their work with existing material. So we’ve partnered with XanEdu – the leading provider of course packs and custom textbooks – to offer attractive compilations, quickly and conveniently.

    PubIt!™

    PubIt!™With Barnes & Noble’s PubIt!™, self-publishing is at your fingertips. The easy-to-use application allows students, faculty and other aspiring authors to publish their own works for digital publishing and distribution with no costs or hidden fees. Authors simply upload their books, set a price and track sales activity.

    Distance Education

    Distance LearningOur exceptional e-commerce technology means that the world is your campus. We offer distance education students the same level of service and support as their on-campus student counterparts. So from studying abroad to learning at home in virtual classrooms, off-campus students receive materials as quickly and conveniently as possible.