Word: coops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coop has been fantastic in its willingness to work with both Harvard College and the U.C. on some of the perceived textbook pricing problems," Rollert says...
Availability of texts is an issue that Murphy says the Coop is very conscious of, but it is dependent on the Faculty to improve. The Coop's ability to get used books and the price at which they get them are contingent on having book-lists early from teachers...
When a text is not being used again in a Harvard course--or the Coop hasn't heard from the professor that it will be--wholesalers buy used texts at prices in the range of 0 to 40 percent...
...improve the situation, the Coop can educate the Faculty as to the impact of getting their book order forms in on time...
...basic tenet of Ec 10 is that free market competition makes for cheaper and better products, but in the textbook industry, Coop competitors don't offer a much better deal...