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...editorial last February, the Crimson Staff criticized Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam for his outlandishly priced $464.50 coursepack. Going back to the drawing board, Putnam instructed his assistants compiling next year’s coursepack to scour Harvard’s electronic resources. The result? After a few weeks of effort, the same 1000 page coursepack is now priced under $200. If only other professors would catch...
Closer to home, textbooks’ soft-cover cousins aren’t getting any cheaper either. Coursepacks that Harvard Printing and Publication Services (HPPS) used to handle are now being farmed out to XanEdu, a for-profit printer, and sold at the Harvard Coop. The extra distribution costs plus the Coop’s markup can only mean higher prices for students (then again, HPPS’s abrupt departure from the coursepack printing business means their low prices must have been to some extent financially unsustainable...
...superficial, textbook-based narrative is not representative of the offerings of the History Department, which focus on much more restricted periods and areas, but above all offer deep, engaging arguments. Former History 10a student Amelia E. Atlas ’06 said that “with a coursepack full of five-page excerpts, it’s impossible to glean any in-depth meaning from a curriculum already spread too thin...
...Whether coursepack costs become manageable is in the hands of professors. We can only shudder at the possibility of being asked to shell out a thousand dollars for a five thousand page monstrosity some day, and the armies of petty copyright thieves such an action will create...
Because of this, some have taken the problem into their own hands by reproducing coursepacks at local copy shops without regard for copyright law. According to student accounts, in one course an undergraduate photocopied a coursepack on reserve at Lamont library for every other member of the class, and not a single one was sold through the usual copyright-abiding means. In another account, Coop employees openly suggested that undergraduates illegally reproduce the Government 90qa coursepack to avo mid its nearly $500 cost...