Textbook Selection Tips

• Meet HCC textbook adoption deadlines.  This assures compliance with the HEOA, gives the bookstore time to source used textbooks, and affords students the opportunity to comparison shop.
• Use Open Educational Resources as much as possible.
• Allow students to use an older edition.
• Wait a year to adopt the new edition of your textbook to allow time for a used market to develop.
• Place your textbook on reserve in the Library.
• Utilize textbook comparison tools.
• Remember that loose-leaf, bundles, and customized textbooks may be cheaper up front but often have no buy back value.

"Required" Textbooks

• IF the textbook is used heavily throughout the course for readings, class discussion, test prep, and home work
• AND IF a student cannot complete the class successfully without the textbook
• THEN it is “required”.

Anything else is optional. Students don’t optional and neither should you.