You may request your textbooks online, fax, or email. The textbook requests will be sent directly to your buyer for processing.

Place your Textbook Adoption Here (On-line)

To fax your textbook adoption, please print this Adoption Form and fax to (415) 405-0474.

To order course readers, click here.

To order Desk Copies, click here for a list of publishers.

Email Textbook Department

Keys to textbook ordering success

Let us know:

As much as you can about the books you order. Author, title and publisher are the minimum. The ISBN assures that we will get the right book. Ideally, give us a complete bibliography.
Whether a book is required or optional and if the book changes from one to the other. This helps us to better serve our customers, and helps to assure appropriate ordering in the future.
When a class is cross-listed. This helps us to be better prepared to help students who may be taking the class in a different department, and to be sure to order sufficient quantities.
When the expected enrollment changes, whether it is up or down. When we know, we can order more books if necessary before we sell out.
When a course or book is cancelled. This helps us to keep students from buying books unnecessarily. Also, some vendors allow returns only if a class is cancelled. If we don't find out that a class is cancelled, we will probably believe that sales for that course were poor, and order (not) accordingly the next time the class is taught.
If you are using a package. Please take into account that ordering a package eliminates used books. Be sure that all of the package pieces are used in the course, as students feel cheated when they pay for items that are not used in the course.
when a book is used. The bookstore begins to return unsold textbooks to their respective publishers a few weeks prior to Finals Week. To avoid returning a book which will be used toward the end of the semester, please specify on the form when the book is used during the semester.
What you know, when you know it! We'd rather get an order a day forever, than wait for all of the orders to be ready. Even an instructor's partial booklist is better than nothing.