Beat The Bookstore Franchises - Book Store Franchise

The high cost of college textbooks has reached crisis proportions for many students.
Beat The Bookstore Franchises In the past two decades, textbook prices have risen a phenomenal 238%, while the price of consumer goods has risen only 51%.¹

According to a National Association of College Stores study, U.S. students paid an average of $807 for books and supplies during 2002-2003, compared to $619 in 1999-2000. That’s a 30% jump in only three years!²

It’s not surprising that the majority of students distrust, dislike and are frustrated by the campus bookstore. They perceive that the bookstore offers high prices, low buy-back values, and unacceptably poor service.

¹“When Books Break the Bank,” The New York Times, September 16, 2003.
²“Price of Books in College Soars,” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 30, 2004.

Well, it's payback time!

Beat The Bookstore founders Mike Winward and David Monk recognized that university-owned bookstores and their cohorts were gouging students unmercifully. They had a monopoly on college textbook sales, and each year the gouging was getting worse. The victims were America’s college students.

Mike and David realized that together they had the skills and experience to take on the $7.7 billion college textbook industry, where students were spending an average of $807 a year on books and supplies.

The Beat The Bookstore concept is very simple. It is centered on catering to students, not publishers, wholesale companies, authors, or administrators.

We buy for more and sell for less, provide uncommon customer service, treat the students with respect, and have fun in the process. Beat The Bookstore Franchises

Our stores don’t even look like a typical college bookstore. They have no high-priced junk, no fudge, no candy, no sweatshirts, no glassware, no decorative spoons, no trinkets, no pennants, no bumper stickers… and no apathetic managers or employees. They just have cheap textbooks and genuine respect for students.

The opening of their first store created an absolute frenzy!

Students came by the hundreds. They sold their used books and bought new ones. As they left, they took stacks of business cards—left them all over campus and gave them to their friends. On the first day of class, professors told students they could buy books cheaper at Beat The Bookstore. Parking shuttle drivers announced it over the PA system. Employees at the campus information desk gave students directions to Beat The Bookstore and passed out business cards. The store was inundated with students. Even employees of the campus bookstore came in to buy and sell their textbooks. There were more customers than the store could handle—it was pure pandemonium!

A second location in Utah was received with the same ferver as the first! Spurred by the students’ mandate for a more fair exchange of textbooks, Mike and David prepared for nationwide expansion.

As a Beat The Bookstore franchise owner, you’ll have the benefit of a proven business system. It’s the compilation of everything we know about the industry, as well as superior business practices—sucked right out of our heads and dropped into a combination of software, processes, and techniques. It consists of the following components:

Superior Software - The proprietary, patent pending software will help you manage and control your daily store operations. It’s like having us in a box. This software controls all customer transactions, manages purchases and returns from wholesale book companies, handles textbook buy-back from students, performs cash control and cash drawer management, manages inventory, tracks employee and subcontractor information, maintains the customer database and does other super top secret stuff that can’t be divulged at this time.

Outstanding Customer Service Program - In an industry that gouges students with impunity, Beat The Bookstore is the students’ advocate. Students are treated with the respect they deserve. In addition to courtesy and friendliness, respect for students is obvious in every aspect of the business. Students are greeted with a smile when they enter the store, helped in finding the right books for their classes, not subjected to long, slow moving lines and educated about how the college textbook industry works

Offbeat Marketing Techniques - There’s a method behind the madness. It’s all about top-of-mind awareness. Beat The Bookstore does things that get noticed. Everything from the company’s name and logo to the bold promotions speaks directly to the heart of the student—they see this stuff and they get it, instantly. The result is massive word-of-mouth advertising. In addition to the crazy antics that get students into the store, we also employ carefully crafted techniques to keep students coming back—again and again.

Franchisee Support - As a member of the Beat The Bookstore franchise network, you'll benefit from years of industry knowledge and overall business experience. Everyone at Beat The Bookstore is dedicated to your success. The franchise support services include comprehensive training, an invaluable operations manual, site selection assistance and ongoing marketing & operations support. The superstar staff at Beat The Bookstore is always available to answer your questions, address your needs, and make you laugh out loud. Your personal Beat The Bookstore field representative will visit you periodically to help you with anything else you may need.

Own your own franchise in the $7.7 billion college textbook industry
and give students what they are demanding!

Franchise opportunities are now available in many U.S. states and expanding rapidly. Obviously, there can be only one Beat The Bookstore at any college or university. So, if you are interested in liberating the campus near you, please complete and submit the form below right now so we can begin the franchise qualification process!

This web site and the information contained herein does not constitute the offer or sale of a franchise. There are certain states that require the registration of a FDD before the franchisor can advertise or offer the franchise in that state. This franchise may not be registered in all registration states and may not offer franchises to residents of those states or to persons wishing to locate a franchise in those states. The offer and sale of a franchise can only be made through the delivery and receipt of a Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).

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