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...leaving behind many unemployed workers. The closing left precious few months to find an alternative solution for courses using HPPS to print their coursepacks, so Harvard’s Procurement Management Department (PMD) chose XanEdu, a division of ProQuest Information and Learning, as the new printer and the Harvard Coop as the new distributor. For succeeding so quickly, all parties involved deserve praise. But in light of nagging cost-related questions, we hope that the PMD ensures that it made the wisest partnerships in its upcoming review of these new business relationships...
...most part, coursepack distribution has gone smoothly this semester. As usual, the Coop is responsive about procuring additional coursepacks when necessary (as with materials for this year’s massive Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”). The only differences most students are likely to notice are the lack of an option to termbill coursepacks and the appearance of a new, non-spiral-bound variety of coursepack that invariably costs more than seems reasonable...
Still, anecdotal accounts from professors are hard to ignore. Lecturer on Sociology David L. Ager slammed the Coop in class for marking up the coursepack for Sociology 109, “Leadership and Organizations,” by more than 20 percent. Associate Professor Eric W. Robinson of History 10a, “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures from Antiquity to 1650,” said in one of his first lectures that he expected the coursepack to cost $50. The Coop ended up selling it for $80. Every Harvard student is familiar with the endless litany of professorial rage...
Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam may be a trailblazer in this regard. Sold at the Coop (and printed by XanEdu) last year, Putnam’s coursepack this semester can be ordered exclusively online, and it comes from University Readers, a company that clears copyrights, prints, and distributes coursepacks all from under one roof. The company even provides PDFs of the first few articles until students receive their coursepacks in the mail. Along with diligent use of e-resources and the cutting of some items, this alternative printer helped Putnam reduce the price of his coursepack from...
...include out-of-region options based on positive feedback from the professors who have used them. That way, courses with professors and head TFs who have the time and motivation to shop around their article lists can get quotes from many different companies, not just Gnomon and the Coop, potentially leading to lower costs. We doubt, at least at first, that many course leaders will expend the effort to do this. Instead, they will take the easiest path and continue using the HPPS-alternative that the PMD arranges. Here, the PMD can use the sheer amount of coursepack business...