Word: cooped
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We’ve all experienced the tinge of disappointment after hauling bags of old books back to the Coop only to find that they’ll only offer you a couple of dollars for books that were many times more expensive at the beginning of the semester. According to Assistant General Manager Steve Babbit, we end up getting what the Coop calls “wholesale price” for many of our books because the Coop is unsure if these books will be needed next year. Many professors do not submit book orders until mid-summer, even...
...Palmer Street Coop currently has three ways that it treats used books during buyback season. If the book has been reordered by a professor—as about 1500 (of 5000 total each semester) already have—the Coop will pay 50 percent of the new price, sometimes less if the book is in bad shape. For books that are not yet reordered, but which the Coop speculates will be reordered based on past history, the buyback price is 25-35 percent of new price. The Coop book department usually speculates on 1000 to 1200 books each semester. Correct...
...buck, two bucks, or nothing. Books in this category are sold directly to a national used book dealer, and they must be sold right away because prices change every month. But there is an elegant solution to this problem that would benefit both students and the Coop...
...Instead of paying 25-35 percent on speculation books, the Coop should pay 10 percent, and use the savings to speculate on an additional 1500 titles that would otherwise go to the wholesaler. On buyback day, students would get less cash than they do now, but the Coop computers would keep track of how little it paid each student for each book. This wouldn’t be hard—the Coop already keeps track of our purchases and sends us refund checks at the end of the year...
Sitaraman and Warren will hold a book signing at the Coop...