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Whichever paperback, textbook, or coursepack my class reading lists said I needed, I bought——at list price—from the Coop or Harvard’s Printing and Publication Services. I spent more than 500 dollars on books during the first week of my first semester alone...
...percent of your assigned reading list that you might actually read, where do you get the books or coursepacks? The answer is the reserves desk at Lamont Library. Every course has its required books and coursepack put on reserve. Large courses, like Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics”—more commonly known as “Ec10”—have multiple copies of coursepacks, sometimes as many as 10. Some students may not like the trek to the library, or when they get there, they don’t like...
There are, of course, the other popular fall-back methods for scrimping on textbook costs, such as buying used books from other Harvard students or vendors on Amazon.com. You might also try gathering a group of fellow classmates, buying one coursepack at regular cost, photocopying it (thus bypassing copyright costs), and splitting the costs among the group...
...Efforts by the UC to reduce coursepack costs have already resulted in a significant victory. The coursebook for the perennially-popular Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics” will no longer come in print form. Instead, according to course coordinator Paul Kelso, all of the readings will be linked on the course’s web site...
...Kelso said his office began to look into e-resources, available for free to all undergraduates through Harvard’s library system, after the UC contacted him about putting course material online. In March, the UC passed a report advocating a reduction of coursepack costs through the use of online resources...