Word: price
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What type of monopoly is Microsoft? A look at the prices is rather edifying, so it's a pity His Majesty didn't look a little longer. When Windows 3.0 first came out in April 1990, a copy went for $205. The initial price of Windows 98, on the other hand, was only $169. Lowering cost to the consumer, it seems, just doesn't correlate with market virtue anymore. Although, in all fairness to Jackson, we are talking about only an 18 percent reduction...
...suit, brought by the National Association of College Stores (NACS), challenges VarsityBooks.com's claim that it offers savings of up to 40 percent. The lawsuit contends that only a small percentage of its books are offered at 40 percent below what it calls the "Suggested Price...
...College students are smart enough to look at a price at a campus bookstore and a Web site," said Kuhn...
...suit also claims that the "Suggested Price" on VarsityBooks.com's Web site is misleading because no such "Suggested Price" exists in the textbook publishing industry...
Allan E. Powell, the Harvard Coop's corporate general manager, said while other publishing industries offer a suggested price, "most textbooks don't come with a suggested retail...