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...price comparison tool of CrimsonReading.org, founded by Magnus Grimeland ’07 and Tom Hadfield ’08, distinguishes it from other student-run book-buying sites. Students can click on a course title to view all required books and compare the prices??updated every 24 hours—from six sources: The Coop, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Half.com, Abebooks, and Booksamillion.com...
...past, students flocked to the buses for their low prices??but have also grumbled about the Fung Wah’s shortcomings, ranging from technological mishaps to troubles with staff...
...read with interest the letter titled “Bookstores, Not Publishers, To Blame For High Prices?? (April 19). Textbook prices are high, but the selling price of a book begins with the publisher cost. The publisher sets the baseline cost to a retailer which includes a mark-up to cover the publisher’s costs of development, royalties, marketing, printing and a profit. The campus bookstore is a retailer and will take the publisher’s cost and add a mark-up that hopefully covers the store’s costs of ordering, receiving, selling...
...grow, funds are increasingly spread thinner among applicants. The number of students receiving the Pell Grant is expected to grow by more than 20 percent this year relative to 2000. While the monetary value of each award has increased over time, it has not kept up with rising prices??$12 billion dollars is needed to restore the purchasing power of Pell Grants to its level in the 1970s. This is a lot of money, but it constitutes only a fraction of the dividends and capital gains component of the Bush...
Farmers’ employment of child slaves and family labor is a response to artificially low cocoa prices??production costs have to be cut or their farms won’t be able to compete. Recent market deregulation in West Africa abolished fixed cocoa prices that once protected the region’s farmers. Now, the price is determined on world commodity markets. Small farmers, who produce the bulk of the world’s cocoa, are particularly vulnerable to volatile world prices. The cocoa purchasing system is also skewed in favor of traders and middlemen?...