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...secure cheaper textbook prices for students and allocating $1,000 of UC money towards the effort. The UC had already approved a more general version of the price-slashing proposal in February, voting to support the Harvard College Book Information System (HCBIS), a database that would compile the ISBN numbers of required textbooks on a central Web site, replacing a system that currently involves unwieldy coordination between professors, the libraries, and the Coop. But yesterday’s legislation marked “the culmination” of the UC’s focus on lowering book prices and signaled...
...representatives at yesterday’s meeting gave a presentation on the Harvard College Book Information System (HCBIS), which would serve as a central repository for course material ISBN information in order to help students find the cheapest ways to get textbooks and sourcepack readings...
...council next considered a bill calling for the approval of the Harvard College Book Information System (HCBIS)—a scheme for the collection of textbook ISBN numbers. The bill’s co-sponsor Tom D. Hadfield ’08 identified it as a means of assuring the survival of the Crimson Reading site...
...ISBN collection has long been an issue for Hadfield, a Crimson Reading co-founder who spent much of August in the Coop copying down the 10-digit numbers which serve as IDs for textbooks and without which, he said, the Web site cannot...
HCBIS, according to the UC legislation, is a way to obtain the necessary ISBN information for required course textbooks without relying on the Coop to amass them in advance...