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...Well for all the anti-Coop carping about “community,” the critics fail to realize the bookstore’s rightful place in it: to procure the obscure titles students need, and sell them in a convenient, centralized location. The Coop’s mission indeed includes the intent “to serve the Harvard community,” but also, as those selective readers may not have not noticed, the stipulation that its “operations should be profitable.” The Coop may charge too much...
...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...
...complaints about the Coop, in some sense justified, nevertheless risk bringing dishonor to Harvard students: by not honorably recognizing the Coop’s convenience which its inflated prices make possible, and also by claiming for us the title of petty and parsimonious penny-pinchers...
Last Thursday, the Coop called the cops on three undergraduates who were busily recording ISBNs, or book serial numbers, for Crimsonreading.com, a student-run Web site that allows visitors to compare textbook prices between the pricey Coop and its cheaper, web-based competitors like Amazon.com. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW] The Coop huffed that the ISBNs were their intellectual property since it went through the effort of soliciting and collecting book lists from professors, and that it doesn’t allow extended note taking by students. Dry-eyed, the two Cambridge police officers left the students untouched, and the students continued...
...their syllabi and post them online early, so students can find their textbooks at more affordable venues. With relatively little effort, the faculty would be doing a major service for its students, especially financially strapped students who work hard to conserve their cash. It also would force the Coop, which currently has a virtual stranglehold over the Harvard textbook market, to lower its prices to compete with other bookstores soaking up the new business...