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...students turn increasingly towards online book vendors for their textbook needs, the MIT Coop recently announced that it is striking back...
John C. Heywood '00, for example, saved almost $50 by buying his accounting textbook from Bigwords.com...
...complaints he heard, the most frequent was that he lectured from the book. But according to Mazur, that is what he was doing: he prepared a lecture from the textbook, copied the lecture onto the blackboard during class and watched the students copy what he wrote into their own notebooks--just like most lecturers did at the time...
...past, if you wanted to operate a business as a Harvard student, it was a little awkward to work around the restrictions," said Johann M. Schleier-Smith '01, who is a co-founder of the online textbook purchasing website limespot.com...
...There's certainly a degree of competition in the textbook aspect of the Web site," Schleier-Smith said. "But we're hoping that Limespot will offer a more comprehensive set of student services...