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...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...
...Sept. 1997 Crimson article compared prices and service--including delivery times and refund policies--between the Coop and Amazon.com for a series of books...
...Coop came out the decided winner, and a quick check reveals that little has since changed. Local booksellers might be a better option, but they say they face constraints similar to the Coop's, and that they have no incentive to take on the Coop's role...
Store managers have appealed to Faculty to provide them with booklists, and the store purchases students' used books for courses that are still being offered and sells them at half the cover price--cheaper than the Coop's price for used books...
...primary idea behind the program is to be able to say 'yes' to people coming in looking for books and to be responsive to their need," Albano says. Nevertheless, he says he thinks that his store competes favorably against the Coop...