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Redline Textbooks, which was started by eight Harvard juniors in Currier House, offers students an alternative to The Coop. They offer students lower priced textbooks for fifteen Harvard courses—with reductions between $20-50 off Coop prices. And they offer next-day delivery right to student mail centers. The Redline Textbooks website advertises that already the business has helped Harvard students save over...
...meantime, Redline Textbooks is a welcome new addition to the textbook market. Cheaper, quicker and more convenient than The Coop—and all from a room in Currier—it makes one wonder why The Coop hasn’t followed suit in similar ways to cut down on costs for students. Hopefully, as more companies like Redline start up, seizing the advantage of arbitrage, publishing companies will be forced to lower prices to compete. When buying books this fall, students must remember that as a collective group, consumers do retain some power on their own to force...
...storing or for how long, it does appear to be the case that HUPD has access to this material in some capacity, which means it must be hanging around somewhere. Also when and where you ate dinner last night. And what you’ve bought at the Coop, and what you’ve sold on E-Bay, and maybe a list of what books you’ve taken out from the library (and how much you owe in overdue fines on them). The list is endless...
...major complaint she has heard is the removal of a foosball table. There has also been some “grumbling” about the downsized first-floor branch of The Coop and some faculty members were reportedly upset that their second-floor dining room had been taken away...
...Coop has every book, and I buy books at the Coop, but for many books, The Coop doesn’t provide the best options and prices.” “In addition, we’re getting a chance to run a business,” he added...