Students may bring their books in to resell to the Campus Duck Store at any time. We buy books 359 days a year. However, for the best prices bring your books in during the scheduled finals buyback. For these dates, please refer to our FINALS BUYBACK SCHEDULE. At the end of each term, we buy books needed by the Literary Duck for the upcoming term. At this time, representatives of a national wholesale book company (we use several on a rotating basis) staff the Buyback counter locations. For more information on how we value course books at the end of each term, please review the categories below.

Each book brought to us during buyback will fall into one of three categories. The amount of money you receive from your book will depend on the book's current category.

These books will be used for the upcoming term. They are books University of Oregon faculty have requested for the upcoming term and we need to replenish our stock of these books. For books with retail value, we will pay you 50% of the new student discounted price. See example below.

Books that fall into this category are books that have NOT been requested by the University of Oregon faculty for the upcoming term, or are books we are overstocked on. These books are NOT purchased by the Duck Store. The wholesale company will pay the wholesale market value for these books. Wholesale market value ranges from 0-33% of the retail price, depending on national demand for the book.

Books that fall into this category are books that have NOT been requested by the University of Oregon faculty for the upcoming term, or are books we are overstocked on. Unfortunately, these books also do not have a wholesale market value. Books that fall into this category tend to be older titles that have gone out of print, have been replaced by a newer edition, or are not commonly used on campuses across the nation (local titles). Neither the Duck Store or the wholesale company need these titles, and therefore cannot pay any money for them. We can recycle these books at your request.