Word: coops
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Last Tuesday, Jarret A. Zafran ’09 was reportedly asked to leave the Harvard Coop after recording the prices of six books required for his social studies junior tutorial. His story is not unique. Other bargain-hunting students have reported similar experiences. Most notably, on Thursday, the Coop called Cambridge police on ISBN-copying students gathering data for CrimsonReading.org, but the police refused to take action...
...Coop President Jerry P. Murphy told the Crimson that the Coop’s policy is to “discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes” because textbook information is “the Coop’s intellectual property.” The Crimson has also quoted Murphy as saying: “We’ve gone to the trouble of collecting the intellectual property of the book lists [from the professors]... [a]nd we wanted to make sure that we’re not going to—my words?...
Other students, Staff said, have been relying on more high-tech methods to bypass the Coop staff’s methods, such as text-messaging ISBN numbers to themselves, using phones to take photos of the books, or using computers to copy information...
...Coop and pulled out my laptop to look online at books I needed to buy,” Joshua G. Allen ’09 said. “I was planning on buying them at the Coop and returning them later...
Nevertheless, the Coop will always have at least one advantage over its online competitors—convenience...