Word: coops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students frequently single out the Coop as the culprit, the Coop says change needs to come from professors, but professors lack a financial incentive to control the costs of books for their courses...
...Harvard Coop: The Distributor...
Chair of the Undergraduate Council Student Affairs Committee John Paul Rollert '00, says the primary rants he hears from students on their textbook costs blame the Coop, where they buy most of their books, for overpricing...
...professors seeking other options without sending their students to the Kennedy School or MIT, one possibility is the Coop. The Coop farms its sourcebook production out to Booktech, an independent producer, and then marks up the books 20 percent beyond Booktech's rates, according to Coop Textbook Manager Patrick Campbell...
...problem is that the books are not sold directly to the students," said the manager of a printing company who requested not to be named. "First the publishers charge money to print the material and then The Coop marks up the prices as well. The Coop is not selling books to the students out of the kindness of its heart...