Your CSUSM Bookstore and University Store are part of a non-profit corporation dedicated to the service and development of our campus community. Pricing of our textbooks is designed to maintain margins that aggressively compete with competitors and cover the costs of operation. All profits resulting from your purchases here on campus, stay on campus! An important part of our service to the campus is offering low-price alternatives for student textbook needs. This includes the availability of numerous rental and digital textbooks, as well as offering our low price guarantee
 policy (see Homepage ad) on traditional textbook purchases. Please peruse the information below which includes an illustrative breakdown of the cost of a textbook, as well as some important legislation, that we both support and comply with, addressing the issues of textbook affordability. Thank you for your business and helping to support the CSUSM community!

The CSUSM Bookstore, a non-profit commercial entity of the University Auxiliary Research Services Corporation, aggressively pursues compliance with the California Legislature's AB 2477 Textbook Affordability Initiative (effective July 1, 2010). We take pride in our efforts, both in our successful strides to achieve compliance in the fall of 2008, and our ongoing proactive approach to further address the issue. The following is a reprint of the "purpose and intent" of AB 2477:

"The purpose and intent of this section is to ensure students have access to affordable course materials by decreasing costs to students and enhancing transparency and disclosure with respect to the selection, purchase, sale, and use of course materials. It is the intent of this section to encourage all of the involved parties, including faculty, students, administrators, institutions of higher education, bookstores, distributors, and publishers, to work together to identify ways to decrease the cost of college textbooks and supplemental materials for students while supporting the academic freedom of faculty members to select high quality course materials for students." 

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