From time to time, particularly at this time of year, there are outside book buyers soliciting Drake faculty to buy back their unwanted or unneeded textbooks. Please note that there is a Drake policy in the Faculty Manual regarding this practice:

2.163 Sale of Examination Copies
The sale of examination copies of textbooks is unethical and has undesirable long-run effects on professors and students alike. The Faculty Senate urges that the University Administration discourage book companies and other purchasers from mail or on-campus soliciting of faculty members to sell examination copies of textbooks.

—Caron Findlay, Finance and Administration