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...while many titles are offered at a considerable discount on search sites and online vendors, students are not guaranteed to save when they buy over the Internet...
...Michael D. Shumsky '00 and John Paul Rollert '00, the chair and vice-chair of the Committee of Undergraduate Education (CUE), it is the end of long negotiations with administrators and book vendors over server space and discount prices...
LOOK OUT, AMAZON If you thought Amazon was the best place for discount books, CDs, movies and video games, think again. Half.com lets visitors buy and sell used books, CDs, etc. for half price. Sellers pay a 15% commission; buyers get a money-back guarantee. As a promo gimmick, the site got a small town in Oregon to change its name to Half.com for the year in exchange for some free...
...Time Warner's $65 price the Friday before the deal was announced, but it would still give AOL shareholders 55% of the company. Conversely, Time Warner was providing 80% of the cash flow. Says Levin: "If some people think that AOL has been sold at too much of a discount or Time Warner has been sold at not a high enough premium--if we get those disparate reactions--then we've probably done the right thing." Although both companies have done handsprings to portray the combination as a merger of equals, Wall Street has since made it clear that...
...product they want to buy but haven't completed the transaction. Some stay. Some bolt. A little hand holding can help reduce the chance of a cut-and-run considerably. First tip: Post a toll-free number, and staff the phones. Ken Seiff, CEO of Bluefly.com which sells discount designer apparel (big holiday seller: $79 pashmina scarves), attributes his company's favorable traffic-to-sales ratio to having enough live customer-service reps (70 during the busiest December weeks, up from just four in September) on hand to answer customer calls and reply to e-mail inquiries. "Everybody...