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| About Us |
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| Thank you for your interest in the
Brown Bookstore. Our mission is to serve the needs of our customers
through the effective delivery of quality book and other academic and
collegiate retail services. |
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| Background |
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| The Brown Bookstore has been located at 244
Thayer Street, since the opening of the Brown Office Building in 1970.
The Bookstore is an anchor store to the Thayer Street retail district on
College Hill in Providences historic East Side. The Bookstore attracts
students, faculty, staff, alumni, visitors, area residents and
professionals. The Bookstore is known for its general and academic book
selections, and quality Brown gifts and apparel, cards, stationery,
supply and computer products, also for its friendly atmosphere and good
service. Self-operated by Brown University, the Brown Bookstore is proud
of its status as an independent university and community focused
bookstore. |
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| Textbooks |
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Course book services, our
core academic service, requires continuous use of electronic data
transfers, and close partnerships with faculty, academic staff,
publishers, distributors and used book wholesalers in order to meet
faculty and student expectations and academic requirements. Used books
constitute 30% of course book sales, reflecting an emphasis at the Brown
Bookstore to reduce textbook costs to students (course book costs per
student typically average $400-$500 per semester). Faculty need for
customized course materials places an emphasis on bookstore and
publisher partnerships to provide reasonable and effective copyright
clearance, flexible packaging of intellectual property on campus. The
Bookstore is linked closely with Brown's graphic services, academic
departments, library, computing information, registrar and financial aid
at Brown to provide effective and unified approaches to information,
copyright and printing services. Information on copyright can be found
at: www.brown.edu/Administration/Copyright.
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| General Books |
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| The Brown Bookstore has strong traditions as
an independent university bookseller. Book stocks include a diverse
front-list and backlist of titles, reflecting the wide range of
academic, professional and the general book interests of the Brown
community and area residents. Breadth of customer book interests
requires special ordering services and good relations with the gamut of
academic and trade publishers and book distributor services. Knowledge
of distributor and publisher order response is critical to meeting
customer expectations including special orders - a major focus of the
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| Merchandise, Computer Products &
Services |
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The Campus Shop and Technology Center are part of the Brown Bookstore and provide an important
complement to our book services. For more information visit Contacts and Services.
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