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...Harvard Coop continues its crackdown on students who jot down book information in the store with plans to take their business elsewhere, undergraduates are devising new ways to skirt the Coop’s latest measures...
Last Thursday, Coop staff members, who have been asking anyone copying down book information to leave, called the Cambridge Police Department on three undergraduates working for CrimsonReading.org, a student-run Web site that allows students to compare textbook prices among online retailers, when they refused to leave for writing down ISBNs. Coop officials declined to comment over the weekend...
Rather than making group trips to the Coop, Crimson Reading, which is in its third semester of operations, has now opted to use “crowd-sourcing,” relying on student and faculty submissions of ISBN numbers...
...shut it down. According to former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, speaking to The Crimson last spring, “I didn’t think that I could financially support an effort that was in some ways in opposition to the Harvard Coop.” This near-fetishistic protectionism, which the new College administration apparently still espouses, is befuddling to say the least. What has Harvard come to that the College administration has abdicated its responsibility to students in favor of a business...
...even with the apparent apathy of the Faculty and the inexplicable cowardice of the College administration, we also find fault with the Coop. We understand that the Coop is a business—and a necessary one at that. There will always be students who need their books immediately, and the Coop should be able to charge extra for providing that convenience. The Coop, however, does not own ISBNs—as Jonathan L. Zittrain, the director of the Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has said. ISBNs are facts, and the unique combinations of ISBNs...