Students can save while buying books today.
UF bookstores will give students a 7 percent discount on all new and used books. However, books for rent and books bought online are not discounted.
The sale will be at the bookstores in the Reitz Union, Health Science Center and College of Veterinary Medicine. The Levin College of Law bookstore had its sale Monday.
Student Government partnered with the bookstores to promote the discount day for the past two years, said Action SG Chairman Sean Quinn. He said the discount has saved students more than $50,000 total.
In 2007, students began receiving a 6.25 percent discount when buying books on the first day of classes, said UF Bookstores Director Lynne Vaughan. This amount corresponded to Florida’s sales tax.
But when the bookstores changed computer systems, they needed to input a whole number, so they rounded the discount up to 7 percent.
Vaughan said she knows books can be expensive, but she thinks this discount will help students.
“We can’t do it all the time,” she said. “But we can do it once a year.”
Contact Samantha Shavell at sshavell@alligator.org.
