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MBS
Textbook Exchange, Inc.

Widely regarded as the industry leader, MBS is the largest used textbook wholesaler, bookstore systems provider, and distance learning distribution service in the United States. Organized into three operating divisions-MBS Wholesale, MBS Direct, and MBS Systems-each division supports our customers with state-of-the-art technology and innovations that continually make doing business with MBS easier.
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2000 to the Present
. Online solutions: TAonline, GMonline, SFAonline
. MBS Realtime Ordering
. MBS Service Center
. Faculty Center Network website
. STUDYtactics.com website
. Textbook Trader and Bulletin Board
. Exclusive distributor of SparkNotes products
. inSite Web Commerce Solution
. Expanded database to more than 500,000 titles
and 110,000 wholesale prices
   
1981-1999
. Retail invoice price extension
. MBS DirectLink
. Email notification of book shipments
. Field-based customer service representatives
. Warehouse automated storage and retrieval system
. Book barcoding
. Online buyback promotional materials
. MBSbooks.com website
. 25 systems applications for bookstore management
. MBS Internet
. eMBS
. MBS Direct
. UPS/MBS partnership
. IBM business partner
. 52 dedicated departmental toll-free numbers
. Toll-free phone and fax lines
. Expanded database to more than 300,000 titles and 90,000 wholesale prices
   
1980
. Pioneered many technological innovations laying the foundation for what is now known as the MBS Total Store Solution.
. All retail stores across the country owned by Missouri Store Company sold to Barnes & Noble College Stores.
. Name changed to MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc.
   
1970s
. Wholesale used textbook business re-entered under the name University Book Services. Name subsequently changed to Missouri Book Services (MBS).
   
1960s
. Additional stores opened in Los Angeles and Irvine, California; Boca Raton and Miami, Florida.
   
1950s
. With the expiration of the GI Bill, some stores closed when college enrollments returned to their historical levels.
   
1940s
. Used textbook wholesale business ceased with the drafting of most male employees during World War II. Following the war, stores were opened in East Lansing, Michigan; Iowa City, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska; Stillwater, Oklahoma; Jefferson City and Rolla, Missouri. College enrollments reached an all-time high due to the GI Bill.
   
1930s
. Operations expanded with the opening of bookstores in Boulder, Colorado; Berkeley, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, California.
   
1920s
. Began used textbook wholesale operation nationally. Catalogs (forerunner to what is known today as buying guides) were mailed to bookstores and college professors showing both selling and buying prices.
   
1909
. Operations began as The Missouri Store Company in Columbia, Missouri, selling classroom furniture and teaching supplies to public schools in the state.
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MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc.
2711 West Ash Street
Columbia, MO 65203
800-325-0530
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