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...Among the most controversial methods of information-gathering, for both Crimson Reading affiliates and cost-conscious students, were clandestine missions to the Coop during which they could copy the course books’ ISBN numbers. The Coop responded with a crackdown: One student was expelled for transcribing ISBNs and several others prompted the threat of police intervention...
...Today’s incident proves that the Coop doesn’t believe its own propaganda about owning ISBN numbers,” Hadfield said. Hadfield and Goldenberg are both members of the Crimson editorial staff...
...notes.” The apparent new policy could be a response to efforts by Crimsonreading.org—an online database that allows students to find the books they need for each course at discounted prices from several online booksellers—from writing down the ISBN identification numbers for books at the Coop and then using that information for their Web site. Murphy said the Coop considers that information the Coop’s intellectual property. Crimson Reading disagrees. “We don’t think the Coop owns copyright on this information that should...
...January’s end, with the official inauguration still a week away, the pursuit of textbook price reform was already well underway—and under fire. A group of UC representatives, dispatched to the Harvard Coop to collect ISBN information for the database of a UC-endorsed, student-run book-savings Web site, were forced to leave by store employees...
...reader would have benefited from this context. Indeed, the story as a whole could have focused more on this episode than, say, how the council planned to gather ISBN codes from textbooks at the Coop. While the latter subject may have had more long-term ramifications, the story of a sophomore stuck in a hallway was certainly more riveting...