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With the departure of the Harvard Printing and Publication Services (HPPS) from the printing business this past summer, citing cost inefficiency, students now must queue up for their coursepacks at two new locations, the Harvard Coop and Gnomon Copy...
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...
Joanne Silva, director of Harvard Printing and Publication Services (HPPS), described the planned space as a convenient, multipurpose location. At the beginning of each semester, the site would distribute coursepacks. But the space would also serve as a technology center where students and faculty could have hardware problems repaired and try out new computer hardware without making the trek to existing facilities farther from campus...
...HPPS will work with Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services to provide on-site computer repairs. Currently, students and faculty must travel to the Technology Product Center in Allston for hardware repairs...
Officials from HPPS also plan to meet this week with Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 about coordinating computer repair efforts with the User Assistants...