The new online bookstore, launched in partnership with UCSC’s Bay Tree Campus Store and Akademos, a premier provider of higher education course content, is in full swing this fall—and the savings are already stacking up. Students have saved $79,861 on textbooks and course materials in fall quarter alone, and $150,961 since the initial launch in spring. Led by the growing preference among students and faculty for digital textbooks and course materials, rental textbooks, and access to Open Educational Resources (OER), UCSC pursued this partnership to provide for the evolving needs of the student body and faculty.
