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...social sciences, the stores most competitive with the Coop's near-comprehensive supply are Harvard Book Store, where we found about half the books we were looking for, and WordsWorth, which stocked about one-third. In literature, those two, as well as Paperback Booksmith, had about one-quarter of the editions we sought...
Both Harvard Book Store and Paperback Booksmith follow the same pricing policy as the Coop: they sell at list price. But the two WordsWorth shops offer significant discounts. The Harvard Square outlet gives 10 percent off on paperbacks and 15 percent off on non-textbook hardcovers. The Central Square branch, which sells mostly publishers' overstock, gives a 50 percent discount on all prices...
...number of stores, we noticed a tradeoff between selection and price. For example, Paperback Booksmith carries 10 of the 13 books required for Literature and Arts A-19 "Fiction, Ideology, and Myth: The Novel in the Twentieth Century," but sells nine of them at the same price as the Coop, and one for a dollar more. WordsWorth 2 has only two of the 13 works--The Counterfeiters by Andre' Gide, and The Castle by Franz Kafka--but undersells the Coop by a combined total of $7 for the pair...
Another option open to price-conscious students is to search for used books. Several stores carry second-hand texts, including the Coop itself, which buys books being used in the current semester from students at 50 percent of the original price. Harvard Book Store sells used editions at a 25 percent discount and the Starr Book Shop on Bow St. sells books at 40 to 60 percent off. The selection is limited in all three cases, but Harvard Book Store offers a good supply of Penguin Books, and the Starr carries a wide selection of "classic scholarly books...
...records, the Coop unquestionably offers the best value. We priced Rolling Stone magazine's top-ten new releases at Kennedy St. shops Discount Records and Strawberries, as well as at the Coop. Nine of the 10 albums were cheapest at the Coop. In addition, of the nine available at Discount Records, seven were more expensive than at Strawberries and the Coop...