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Kudos on yet another piece of irresponsible journalism in regards to the Coop, this time in the form of Molly Hennessy-Fiske's "Crashing the Coop" (Feb. 1, 1997). As was evinced by my brief conversation with the author as she was researching the story, as well as observing her interactions with other interviewees, Miss Hennessy-Fiske's intentions were not to provide a fair account of bookselling at the Coop, but rather to push an agenda. I, in turn, would like to push mine...
Having sat on the Board of Directors of the Coop for over a year-and-a-half, I have seen up close the difficulties of running an academic bookstore, one of the largest of which is student perception...
While prices on certain books are indeed high, the mind-set of many students is that the Coop deliberately inflates them to make profits. This is incorrect in two ways. First, we sell all books at list price (see Books In Print, the industry bible, to confirm this...
...added that Barnes and Noble's assumption of management of the Coop last fall was not a factor in low buy-back prices for books...
...ended up finding a person looking at the books in the Coop who was willing to buy them from me," said Montross...