Word: gnomon
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Their second pledge, to make coursepacks available online for free, goes beyond recognizing that coursepacks are too expensive and actually suggests a solution. It’s not unusual for coursepacks to cost over $100 largely because the Coop, Gnomon Copy, and XanEdu have a monopoly on the printing and distribution of coursepacks. Magnus and Tom pledge to make coursepacks available for download as PDF files so that students can print relevant articles on their own printers...
...Partners” to 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...
Both new locations, the Coop and Gnomon Copy, offer reserve forms for coursepacks that are out of stock. According to Coop textbook manager Bob Wuesthoff, the Coop has also developed a system with the Core Office to let the office know when the coursepack inventory...
...Gnomon Copy, where most other coursepacks are being distributed, has also had long lines of students on many weekday afternoons. If students need coursepacks that are sold out, the store asks students to pre-pay and fill out a reserve form...
...slip of paper, which you must have to pick up the coursebook,” said Mike, an employee at Gnomon Copy who declined to give his last name. “If you didn’t pay [for the coursepack] beforehand, then we would print out a lot of coursepacks that no one would pick up. This way, the student just has to take a little responsibility...