This site was developed by Angelo Marques as a capstone project in the spring
of 2005 with the intent to help students save money on books. It allows
both for Faculty to post assigned books for upcoming semesters and
for students to buy and sell books from other students. This website
serves only to connect buyers with sellers; the actual transaction
is handled solely by the students and it is outside of the control
of this site.
This site is provided as a free service for CSUMB students only. To
use any of the services here you must create an account and only valid
CSUMB email addresses are allowed accounts. In addition, email addresses
used to create accounts have to be verified once a year. Unverified
emails will result in account deletions, this will insure that only
CSUMB students can use these services.
To create an account click the "signup"
button on the top navigation bar. Please fill in all the required
information. For the email address field only CSUMB email accounts
are allowed.
Faculty: Please make sure to select the appropriate
radio button to create a faculty account. If you create a student
account by mistake you must remove and recreate your account.
Student: If you provide a phone number here every
time you purchase a book in this site your phone number is sent
to the seller in addition to your email address.
To conclude the account creation process you must validate your
email address. After filling in the signup form an email will
be sent to your inbox with a validation code. Please follow the
instructions in this email to validate your account.
Faculty accounts go through an additional validation
process. If you attempt to signup as faculty the system will query
the CSUMB book list in search of your email. If this fails and
you are a faculty member you can request another faculty member
to validate your email as a faculty email. The ideal person to
validate your account is a faculty member that already has an
account with bookXchange. If you don't know a faculty member with
an account here you may want to try a persuade one to create an
account and then validate you as faculty. CSUMB book list may
not be updated often enough and the best candidate for this task
is a faculty member that has been working at CSUMB for some time.
Once you have successfully created an account, you can login to
your control panel by using the "login"
button. If you forgot your password simply use the send password
portion of the login page to retrieve it. Once logged-in your
last name will show on the lower right hand side of the web site.
After you login you will be presented with your control panel.
Until you logout the "login
page" is your control panel.
From here you can post a book for sale, edit your list of books
on sale and change your account information including the deletion
of this account.
Go to your control panel
to post a book for sale. Type the ISBN
in the appropriate field and click 'post'. In the next the system
will query the Amazon database for the information given, if found
most of the required fields are already filled in for you. If
this information is not already you must fill in all the required
fields. The books are organized into classes in this website.
Select the class this book was used for by selecting the department
from the dropdown field and typing the class number in the field
next to it. You may also want to describe the condition of your
book using the appropriate field, please keep this short and to
the point, for example: "like new" or "slightly
used". In the price field use only numbers like 12.00 or
24.50. The dollar sign is already there for you. Once all the
required fields are filled in click the 'post book' button to
place this book on sale. You can later edit this information using
the 'Edit or remove posted
books' in your control panel.
Note: The website does not perform any transactions.
If someone is interested in buying your book you will receive
an purchase request email with contact information from the student
interested in buying your book. The prospective buyer does not
who you are and its up to you to contact him/her to arrange for
the transaction.
Go to your control panel
to edit your list of books for sale. Click the 'edit' button in
the 'Edit or remove posted
books' section. The next screen shows list of the books you have
posted for sale. The status column indicates if the book is 'on
sale' or has a 'sale pending'. If you received a purchase request
email for any of these books it will show with a 'sale pending'
status. If you sold this book you should remove it from the website.
To do this simply click the 'remove' button in the appropriate
row. To edit the price or any other information about any of your
posted books, click the 'edit' button in the corresponding row.
Go to your control panel
to edit your account information. Click the 'edit' button in edit
account section. You may change your password, add or remove your
phone number and correct your name if needed.
Go to your control panel
to terminate your account. Click the 'edit' button in edit account
section and then click the 'remove' button.
Note: This will delete all posted books in your
account and the account as well. This is not undoable and there
is no way for the system to recover deleted information. After
clicking "remove" button you will be logged out and the only way
to get back in is to signup for an account again.
After you login you will be presented with your control panel.
Until you logout the "login
page" is your control panel.
From here you can assign books to upcoming classes, edit your
list of assigned books, change your account information including
account deletion and you can also validate other faculty member's
email address as a valid faculty email.
Go to your control panel
to post a book for class. Type the ISBN
in the appropriate field and click 'post'. In the next screen
the system will query the Amazon database for the information
given, if found most of the required fields are already filled
in for you. If this information is not already you must fill in
all the required fields. Select the class this book is to be used
for by selecting the department from the dropdown field and typing
the class number in the field next to it. Select the semester
your assigning this book for. Semesters are coded with a two letters
and a four digit year. The letter combinations are: SP for Spring,
SU for Summer, FA for Fall and WI for Winter.
Select if the book is recommended or required for the course and
finalize the process by clicking the 'post book' button. You can
later edit this information using the 'Edit
or remove posted books' in your control panel.
Go to your control panel
to edit your list of posted books. Click the 'edit' button in
the 'Edit or remove posted
books' section. The next screen shows list of the books you have
assigned for classes. If you are no longer teaching a course or
no longer using a book you should remove it from the website.
To do this simply click the 'remove' button in the appropriate
row. To edit any information in any of your posted books, click
the 'edit' button in the corresponding row.
Go to your control panel
to edit your account information. Click the 'edit' button in edit
account section. You may change your password and correct your
name if needed.
Go to your control panel
to terminate your account. Click the 'edit' button in edit account
section and then click the 'remove' button.
Note: This will delete all posted books in your
account and the account as well. This is not undoable and there
is no way for the system to recover deleted information. After
clicking "remove" button you will be logged out and the only way
to get back in is to signup for an account again.
Faculty accounts must have their email validated
as belonging to a faculty member. As a backup method for accounts
that are not yet in the CSUMB public book list, faculty account
holders can validate email addresses as faculty emails. To do
this go to your control panel,
type in the email address you want to validate and click the 'validate'
button.
Note: This will allow the owner of the validated
email address to create a faculty account and benefit from all
the privileges and power that come with this account type, please
use responsibly.
Using the search box in the top navigation bar you can search
for books using keywords. The search system will look for any
books matching author name, book title, department, course number,
publisher or ISBN. Alternatively
you may also browse books
for sale using the dropdown menu in the side navigation bar.
You can browse books for sale using the dropdown menu in the side
navigation bar. The menu is organized into departments and the
number in parenthesis tells you how many books are posted for
sale in that department. Alternatively you may also search
for books in the top navigation bar.
You can browse books assigned to upcoming classes using the 'Assigned
books' dropdown menu in the side navigation bar. The menu is organized
into departments and it only shows departments which books have
been assigned for. The books listed here are posted by faculty
for the classes they are teaching. CSUMB bookXchange is not responsible
for the authenticity of the content posted here. There are measures
put in place that try to ensure that only faculty can assign books.
However the system is not full proof and there is a chance the
information may not be accurate.
CSUMB does not conduct sale transactions. To purchase a book,
search or browse
for the book you are interested in. After finding the book you
want add it to the shopping cart. You may add as many books as
you want. When you are ready to checkout, simply click the checkout
button in the 'cart' page.
You must be logged in to checkout,
if you are not logged in at checkout you will be prompted to do
so. You can login at any point of the shopping session.
When you checkout your contact information is sent to the sellers
of the books you have in the shopping cart. It is then up to the
sellers to contact you and arrange for the actual transaction.
The bookXchange service ends after sending the purchase requests,
it is not responsible for what happens after that.
The ISBN is a unique machine-readable identification number assigned
to books. This number is found in most books and it is standard
part number of a book. The ISBN can be usually found
in the book's back cover next to the bar code and in the first
few pages of the book next to the publishers information.
Look for a similar label in the
book's back cover.
Look
for the
ISBN
in the
first few
pages
of the
book
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