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...line outside Wordsworth’s stretched back along Brattle Street, almost reaching Peet’s Coffee and Tea, while the line at the Coop ended across the street from Cafe Algiers...
...witching hour approached, the crowd watching the front door of the Coop grew almost as large as the line leading to it. Artist George Stanley was showing the crowd his creation, an iconographic, Christ-like representation of Harry. As the old religions lose their power, he said, “we need new heroes for a new generation.” An increase in imagination would increase our GDP, he claimed, and lead to evil expunged and good ascendant...
...midnight—”clock hands joined palms in respectful greeting,” as Rushdie put it—a heartfelt scream of excitement rose from thousands of throats in the Square. The first patrons came out of the Coop with their books held aloft, struggling through the clapping, cheering, slightly jealous crowd...
According to Allan E. Powell, the general manager of the Harvard Coop, the high cost of coursepacks is primarily due to expensive copyright and licensing fees. He said the store's 15-20 percent markup on coursepacks is significantly lower than that of textbooks, particularly when the Coop's annual rebate is taken into account...
Powell also noted that the copyright and licensing issues related to Harvard coursepacks are primarily dealt with by XanEdu Custom Publishing, a national provider of coursepacks and custom textbooks, and not the Coop itself...