Spring 2008 Textbook Price Comparison

Wildcat Textbooks vs. UK Bookstore

A-H 105 Art Across Time, Vol. 1 Wildcat - $69.95 UK - $74.25

ACC 201 Financial Accounting Wildcat - $99.95 UK - $132.00

ACC 202 Managerial Accounting Wildcat - $119.95 UK - $124.50

ACC 300 Financial Reporting & Analysis Wildcat - $119.95 UK - $139.25

ACC 324 Accounting Information Systems Wildcat - $29.95 UK - $98.00

ANT 160 Dobe Ju/Hoansi Wildcat - $19.95 UK - $24.75

AST 192 Voyages to the Stars & Galaxies Wildcat - $59.95 UK - $64.25

BIO 102 Living in the Environment Wildcat - $99.95 UK - $109.50

BIO 308 Microbiology Wildcat - $99.95 UK - $125.25

CE 106 Engineering Design Graphics Wildcat - $89.95 UK - $93.00

CHE 105 Chemistry Wildcat - $109.95 UK - $132.50

CHE 108 General, Organic, & Biochemistry Wildcat - $79.95 UK - $118.50

CHE 236 Organic Chemistry Wildcat - $39.95 UK - $105.25

COM 181 Confident Public Speaking Wildcat - $87.95 UK - $106.75

COM 252 Interplay Wildcat - $49.95 UK - $54.75

DIS 300 Foundations of Operations Mgmt. Wildcat - $69.95 UK - $99.00

ECO 101 Economic Way of Thinking Wildcat - $84.95 UK - $93.00

ECO 201 Microeconomics Wildcat - $64.95 UK - $90.00

ECO 391 Stats for Mgmt & Economics Wildcat - $69.95 UK - $110.00

EDP 202 Educational Psychology Wildcat - $84.95 UK - $89.00

EPE 301 Justice, Ideology, & Education Wildcat - $59.95 UK - $69.50

FIN 300 Essentials of Corporate Finance Wildcat - $90.50 UK - $96.75

FIN 423 International Financial Management Wildcat - $69.95 UK - $119.25

GEO 130 Elemental Geosystems Wildcat - $59.95 UK - $75.00

GEO 160 Diversity Amid Globalization Wildcat - $49.95 UK - $88.50

GLY 120 Resources of Earth Wildcat - $69.95 UK - $83.25

HIS 104 Sources of the West, Vol. 1 Wildcat - $39.95 UK - $42.75

HIS 108 American History, Vol.1 Wildcat - $64.95 UK - $77.25

ISC 161 Advertising & Promotion Wildcat - $99.95 UK - $123.00

MA 108 Intermediate Algebra Wildcat - $39.95 UK - $43.50

MA 109 College Algerbra Wildcat - $44.95 UK - $48.75

MGT 320 Fund. of Human Resource Mgmt. Wildcat - $69.95 UK - $81.00

MGT 340 Law, Business, & Society Wildcat - $99.95 UK - $117.00

MKT 300 Marketing Wildcat - $89.95 UK - $123.75

MKT 310 Consumer Behavior Wildcat - $99.95 UK - $145.50

PHI 120 Concise Intro to Logic Wildcat - $29.95 UK - $90.50

PHY 211 Enhanced College Physics Wildcat - $99.95 UK - $145.50

PS 210 Good Society Wildcat - $49.95 UK - $54.00

PSY 100 Exploring Psychology Wildcat - $54.95 UK - $58.25

PSY 223 Developmental Psychology Wildcat - $99.95 UK - $104.75

STA 200 Statistics: Concepts & Controversies Wildcat - $59.95 UK - $63.00

UK 101 Your College Experience Wildcat - $29.95 UK - $34.25

You Can't Hide Money

If you click on this blog title you can check out a story at uky.edu about the big U.K. Bookstore renovation coming this fall. According to the article, "The renovation and expansion is scheduled for completion in November 2008 at a cost of $3.1 million."

That's right, folks. $3.1 million smackeroos.

That's a whole lotta cash to throw around in today's world of inflation, rising tuition costs, and lest we forget - rising textbook costs. But, don't worry. Mega-giant corporation Follett Higher Education runs the U.K. Bookstore and is picking up the tab, not U.K. A look at the price comparison on this very blog shows that U.K. Bookstore is probably not hurting for money in today's troubled times, so don't worry your pretty head about that part.

So, what's all the moolah going toward? Shorter lines? More efficient means of buying back books than scanning books at one counter then sending a customer to wait at another counter before finally giving up the dough?

Nope.

They're promising more square footage for the essentials of college life like, "seating so that the community can spend time browsing the books and magazines." Good thing, because I remember hearing several people at the Community Center last Sunday say that they wished they could sit in the campus bookstore and browse the Math section or look through the July edition of "Guns & Ammo".

I don't know which group I'm more scared of, by the way.

One thing's for certain- there will be a response from Wildcat Textbooks. Just last week, we found an unopened gallon of paint that had been here for over a year and parlayed that, along with 8 dollars worth of drywall, into a brand new dressing room. Sure, if it rains it may leak a little through the roof, but that's only when it rains hard. And that's just the start. In addition to cleaning the windows and mopping the floors every week, we pledge to have the staff shower just as often.

While these cosmetic changes at Wildcat may not entice the community to come in and read our GER 201 textbooks, they will come in about 3.0999999999999999 million dollars less than U.K. Bookstore's cosmetic changes and allow us to continue to sell books for astonishingly less than the campus bookstore.

Wildcat Textbooks- selling books for less instead of flaunting our price-gouging ways with unnecessary building expansions. That's our whole philosophy.