Word: price
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...further 2 percent of the sale price covers the costs of book transportation to the Coop--and back on unsold texts and returns...
Physical operations including shelving, customer service and sales staff account for 13 percent of the sale price leaving the cooperative with a 2 percent profit...
...publisher of novels," says Mankiw, who received a $1.4 million advance for the textbook that has won critical acclaim. He cites features such as colorful graphics, reprints of copyrighted material like cartoons, supplementary material, like instructor's manuals, and length as factors that account for the higher price...
...pretty sad that I have to choose my classes not based on my interest but on the cost of the textbooks," Hur says. "[The high price] is limiting flexibility of choice and basically goes against Harvard's idea of education being open to all quarters...
Availability of texts is an issue that Murphy says the Coop is very conscious of, but it is dependent on the Faculty to improve. The Coop's ability to get used books and the price at which they get them are contingent on having book-lists early from teachers...