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SB 81, as drafted, could eliminate the final stage of the textbook adoption process, which ensures textbooks requested by faculty. The final stage adoption process is a limited, but critical period of time after the faculty provides the college bookstore with required coursebook information. It is at this point that bookstore managers contact the faculty to ask if they would consider using last year's edition or verify the need for an individual professor to bundled book. This step is crucial in achieving cost savings for students. SB 81, as drafted, does not allow for the adoption process to work effectively on behalf of cost-conscience students and families. The legislation requires that course adoption lists be published on-line before the final stage of the textbook adoption process has been completed. This could result in preliminary and inaccurate information being provided to students leading to costly mistakes in ordering. In early anticipation, students may purchase a book on-line or buy from another student only to find that the faculty member has cancelled his textbook order due insufficient supply. The student may be either stuck with the book or have to pay charges for returning the item only IF the seller has a return policy. SB 81 refers to The Governing Board of a Public Institution of Higher Education. USM respectfully requests that HB 3 be amended to refer to each Public Institution of Higher Education SB 81 treats the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) as an exact science and a numerical publication identifier set-in-stone. We support the idea of posting the ISBN numbers as long as long as we can get that information in an unbundled format. With regard to the sample copies of textbooks provided to instructors we believe that it needs to allow for copies to teaching assistants and graduate assistants. Thank you for allowing the ĢƵ to share these thoughts about SB 81. 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