Word: isbn
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...Well, a lot of ISBN numbers [were] written down, many hands were shook, many babies kissed, and much strategery...
...Crimson recently reported that those UC members involved with crimsonreading.org were banned from collecting ISBN numbers in The Coop. Were either of you involved in the recording, and how will it affect the UC’s future relationship with The Coop...
...same books sold by online booksellers like Amazon.com or even other book stores. This issue came to a head last week, when a troop of Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives marched into the Coop on a mission. Skipping through the aisles, the small army not-so-inconspicuously jotted down ISBN numbers of books for sale. Their hope was to collect these numbers for Crimsonreading.com, their own Web site that acts as a portal for online booksellers, which often sell textbooks (the same as the Coop’s) at much lower prices. The site does make a commission, though it donates...
...officials asked UC representatives to leave the floor where they were collecting information on textbooks. Tuesday’s incident, however, did not prevent the student-run Web site crimsonreading.org from going live this week. The site, known as Crimson Reading, allows prospective buyers to compare textbook prices online. ISBN numbers are the ten-digit numbers attached to each book to serve as unique identifiers. “We need that database of ISBN numbers to keep the Web site running,” Crimson Reading co-founder Tom D. Hadfield ’08 said. And in fact...
...question here is not whether this income redistribution is fair, but whether it really is the best idea we have. We could, for instance, have a section in every course website that displays every required book’s ISBN, two weeks before classes start. Computer Services could have even those ISBNs link directly to any of the innumerable cross-searches for textbooks online. All readings the first two weeks of class could be photocopied, available on the course website, or be on reserve in a ratio of one book for every 30 students in the class. Given the time...