Word: cooped
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...Crimson recently reported that those UC members involved with crimsonreading.org were banned from collecting ISBN numbers in The Coop. Were either of you involved in the recording, and how will it affect the UC’s future relationship with The Coop...
...look mighty appealing. Perhaps you should consider the pursuit of honest fast cash through the re-sale of your old textbooks for a better return. Or should you? Rumor has it that selling books to the Harvard Book Store is more lucrative than toting them over to The Coop, but FM wouldn’t suggest going there unless you want to haggle with a bitter 15-year-old clerk. The Harvard Book Store only takes books in brand-new condition, and they offer a measly $42 for “Principles of Economics” (list price: $154.95). Surprisingly...
...course loads. And then, of course, there is book shopping. Harvard professors, it seems, have a particular ability for picking expensive and hard-to-find textbooks for their reading lists. Students gripe that many professors require such books that they end up using very little. The Harvard Square-based Coop, in name a cooperative but managed by Barnes and Noble since 1996, has long had a near-monopoly on textbooks. The majority of professors submit their course reading lists to the Coop so that its aisles are full of new books come shopping week. Many undergraduates feel as if they?...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) operation aimed at providing students with cheaper textbooks suffered a setback when Harvard Coop officials asked UC representatives to leave the floor where they were collecting information on textbooks. Tuesday’s incident, however, did not prevent the student-run Web site crimsonreading.org from going live this week. The site, known as Crimson Reading, allows prospective buyers to compare textbook prices online. ISBN numbers are the ten-digit numbers attached to each book to serve as unique identifiers. “We need that database of ISBN numbers to keep the Web site running...
...treatment of Palestinians with earlier state-sponsored racism in South Africa, President Jimmy Carter met an overwhelmingly friendly crowd at a Harvard Square bookstore on Jan. 23. The Nobel Peace Prize winner signed copies of “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid” at the Harvard Coop while in town for a highly anticipated speech at Brandeis University. Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said he had ordered 1,600 copies of “Palestine” for the store. The hundreds of people hoping to see Carter had to show the book to Coop...