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...which was left across from the room-—currently under rennovation—that Harvard Printing and Publication Services (HPPS) uses each semester to distribute coursepacks, contained copies of coursepack order forms from the Fall 2002 semester...
...HPPS Director Joanne Silva could not be reached for comment this weekend...
...instead of their price. Before going on, let me refresh your memory: You paid 100 bucks for a thick stack of photocopies bound in cheap plastic. That the process of shelling out your hard-earned dough has been made easier through Harvard Printing and Publishing Service’s (HPPS) new online ordering system is nice, but only as the new system that allows me to pay my parking tickets on the web is nice. It is a natural extension of textbook-induced early-term poverty to wonder why these prices are so exorbitantly high. The answer is not simple...
Furthermore, this new system might allow HPPS to finally allow for some coursebook returns. HPPS can surely not afford to guarantee full refunds and unlimited returns—imagine if a class turned sour in the second meeting and 100 people wanted to return their coursepacks for which the printing and publication-rights costs were already paid. But since the online pre-ordering system will alert HPPS if students still want a particular coursebook, a return-on-demand system would be feasible. Students could easily use the online system to cancel their coursepack orders and HPPS could save the time?...
With a revamped online system, HPPS is stepping into the future. Fortunately for students, this will mean spending less time in the present standing on line...