Simplify Textbook Management

The Direct Service Center

The MBS Direct Service Center will be your one, central location for all things related to your textbook and learning materials program. Course Director (MBS Direct’s exclusive textbook adoption application), Student Financial Aid administration, and other online tools, are all accessible through the MBS Direct Service Center.  This eliminates the need to remember several passwords and allows you to quickly access multiple programs, important reports and data about your school and educational materials—all from one convenient location.

With the MBS Direct Service Center, you’ll enjoy:

  • Comprehensive ordering data that allows you to view the success of your school’s student order activity
  • Access to all school-specific publisher information in one location
  • Current backorder information and student orders provided to you in real time
  • Daily activity so you can easily answer students’ questions, should they have any
  • All new reporting, including term historical data with comparative capabilities
  • Marketing communication reports to view what was recently sent to your students

Seamlessly Coordinate Adoptions With Course Director

Course Director is MBS Direct's innovative online adoption tool that gives our partner institutions access to their booklist information. It can function as a single tool, yet it has the ability to be accessed by multiple users who can create, research, update, and submit course adoptions online. Users are provided with real-time information about edition status and supplemental materials. Course Director allows administrators to share the responsibility of updating adoption information with faculty members while still having the ability to approve all changes.

Course Director's Innovative Features

  • Ability to manage adoption information according to term
  • Access to more than 600,000 textbook titles
  • Ability to view updated lists of problem titles

For clear communication, you can use messaging within Course Director to those assisting you with your booklist. Additionally, you may leave messages within your Virtual Bookstore’s homepage (viewed by students) for general school-specific announcements. Virtual Bookstore messages may appear anywhere, and be as specific as an instructor’s note for a particular textbook title.

Faculty Center Network

Used in conjunction with Course Director, Faculty Center Network is an online research and adoption tool designed to reduce textbook adoption research for faculty. Faculty Center Network empowers faculty to easily research MBS Direct's robust database of over 500,000 textbook titles. Faculty can research books through advanced search features like: author's last name, title keyword, ISBN, general keyword. Additionally, they may browse by course subject.

Buyback Solutions

MBS Service Company (MBS) offers competitive prices for books being bought back because we are able to utilize demand from hundreds of institutions across the nation. The process is simple for students—a buyback quote with recently purchased books is automatically generated when students login to their Virtual Bookstore. A postage-paid UPS shipping label is provided to make it easy to send those books to MBS. To ensure clear communications, students sending books back to MBS will receive emails confirming that we received their books; notifying them that we have graded their books and confirmed their value; and finally alerting them when their payment is shipped.

Your students will enjoy MBS's Guaranteed Buyback program. Designed to save time and money, the buyback price (on select, in-demand titles) will be listed at the time of purchase. This allows students to budget for the entire academic term. Additionally, a Customer Loyalty bonus is included with the Guaranteed Buyback amount, saving your students more money.