Word: mooney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coop has a much higher return rate than many bookstores, about 30 percent, Mooney said. According to Gertz, the BC bookstore's return rate is about two-thirds of that amount...
...Publishers have become much more punitive to book stores in passing along costs," Mooney said...
...major difference that has caused book prices at the Coop to soar, Mooney said, is that many publishers now charge book stores a fixed percentage of the cost of books they return. These restocking fees, he said, can add up based on the number of books the Coop returns every semester...
...reason, Mooney said, is that students at Harvard have a much greater tendency to buy books and return them because of shopping period. It is therefore much more difficult to predict, even after a class has begun, how many people will eventually enroll...
...makes things much more challenging. Some Core classes will have an enrollment of 60, then the enrollment balloons to 200 and then back to 60 again," Mooney said...