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Locking competitors out from price comparison is not part of copyright’s aim. While some courts have protected the creativity of price estimates, they haven’t allowed companies to exclude others from learning market prices or catalog part numbers. CrimsonReading.org, which offers price comparisons built around the book lists gathered from professors and the Coop, furthers copyright’s goals of sharing access to information...
...anti-Coop sentiment furthermore underlines an unjustified sense of entitlement. Students implicitly understand the cost of comparison shopping, of compiling the list of needed books (either via syllabi or illegal note-taking at the Coop) and trolling though sites like Amazon—explaining why many still end up shopping at the Coop. Yet since Crimson Reading had streamlined and greatly expedited bargain hunts, many now find it unreasonable that the Coop has complicated the process by forbidding the collection of ISBNs. In short, if you do not want to undergo the burdens of comparison shopping—sans...
CORRECTION: Last Monday’s editorial "Uncooperative" referred to CrimsonReading.com as a student-run textbook comparison Web site. In fact, the Web site is called CrimsonReading.org. The Crimson regrets the error...
...Hadfield added that he encourages all students to continue collecting textbook information from the books sold at the Coop if they wish to comparison-shop online themselves...
...Tuesday I went to the Coop for a biannual tradition: comparison shopping...