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...which would be called the Harvard College Book Information System.Alyssa Q. Colbert ’10, the committee’s vice-chair, said that the idea behind the new system is to create an online system to provide students with free and easy access to book information, particularly ISBN numbers.“We’re trying to change the relationship between the Coop, faculty and students,” Colbert said. “We think that students should have access to [ISBN] numbers in the same way that the Coop has access to them...
...last week, that is. Recent developments at one of the Square’s largest booksellers have pitted bibliophiles against Coop officials. For anyone who has enough of a life to have not followed the scandal, here’s a quick recap: enterprising Harvard students attempt to copy ISBN numbers of course books in order to purchase them more cheaply elsewhere. The Coop calls in the Cambridge Police, who recognize the situation is ridiculous and refuse to boot the students. Frenzied debate ensues over the Coop’s role in serving students and the Harvard community. A recent...
...reportedly asked to leave the Harvard Coop after recording the prices of six books required for his social studies junior tutorial. His story is not unique. Other bargain-hunting students have reported similar experiences. Most notably, on Thursday, the Coop called Cambridge police on ISBN-copying students gathering data for CrimsonReading.org, but the police refused to take action...
...Supreme Court tells us that “[t]he sine qua non of copyright is originality.” That’s why the compilers of a white-pages telephone directory lost their claims against a competitor who copied listings. The Coop neither authored the ISBN numbers on its books nor compiled them in an original selection or arrangement. From all accounts, the professors who create course reading lists are happy for students to have them. (Professors generally welcome anything that helps students to do their course assignments...
Other students, Staff said, have been relying on more high-tech methods to bypass the Coop staff’s methods, such as text-messaging ISBN numbers to themselves, using phones to take photos of the books, or using computers to copy information...