Boundless and Bookstores

Boundless can work with your institution's bookstore to sell our courseware.

Learning Objective

Discuss Boundless's relationship with campus bookstores

Key Points

Boundless will work with your institution in order to make sure that all students have access to our materials.
We have existing relationships with large campus bookstore providers (Barnes and Noble, Follett), and can work with independent bookstores as well.
We sell access codes at a lower rate to bookstores, which pass them on to students, who pay the standard Boundless price of $29.99.
We invoice bookstores based on the number of access codes that end up being used by students.

Term

access code
A method of paying for a Boundless course if a student cannot use a credit card.

Full Text

Working with Bookstores

At Boundless, we want to remove all barriers to institutions adopting our content. We've learned that this means forming a relationship with university bookstores. Students on financial aid packages typically need to purchase their books through the school bookstore in order to use their funds, which means we need to be able to sell our products through university bookstores.

Access Codes

If you want your bookstore to carry Boundless materials, you can put in a request for a certain number of access codes. Access codes are one-time use passes to a Boundless course. If a student buys an access code ($29.99), they can use it to enter their Boundless course, and receive the same benefits (lifetime access, e-reader, study tools, assignments) as anyone who paid for Boundless with a credit card. We will invoice your institution periodically based on the number of access codes used, rather than the number initially purchased.

Price Point

Boundless is always $29.99 for students. When we work with a bookstore, we will give them a percentage of that $29.99, rather than marking up our prices.

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