50 Percent Off Duke University Press Books
Now through May 15, about 2,800 books are half-price
Starting today through May 15, Duke University Press is hosting an online sale of all in-stock titles at 50 percent off list price.
The sale is only being offered online by using coupon code, SPECSALE. Customers who buy six or more books receive a free Duke University Press tote bag.
"This is our first attempt to reach out directly to individual customers in such a large way," said Laura Sell, publicity and advertising manager at Duke University Press. "We've never offered our readers such a wide-open sale before."
Duke University Press is an internationally recognized publisher of books and journals and publishes approximately 120 books annually and more than 40 journals. The Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences but has a reputation for including nontraditional and interdisciplinary publications.
The online sale will include 2,800 titles currently in the warehouse, including "The Krzyzewskiville Tales" by former Duke undergraduate Aaron Dinin, "Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University" by former Duke President Nannerl O. Keohane and "The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race and Celebrity Scandal" by Orin Starn, chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke.
Most paperback titles have a list price of $23.95 or $24.95 so customers can easily save $12 per book. The sale does not include out-of-stock books or forthcoming books.
Putting so many books on sale at once is now possible for Duke Press because of an improved computer system that will automatically route all online orders directly to the warehouse on Golden Drive in Durham.
Sell said that because Duke Press traditionally sells to online retailers or bookstores, warehouse staff is accustomed to preparing large book orders, rather than dealing with individual orders. "But they are geared up and ready to go," she said.