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...Harvard Book Store's head buyer, Carole Horne, says her store has "a handful" of professors who choose them instead of the Coop for textbook orders...
...currently developing a way to have a textbook presence on-line, shooting for this fall," Powell says of the Coop...
...textbook lines at the Coop were a little shorter this semester...
Powell says this can be explained because "in the book industry, the more you buy, the more it costs." Buying a larger quantity causes distributors to assume that the book is being used as a textbook, he says, and actually leads them to charge a higher price than usual...
This discrepancy explains why the identical edition of a book can be priced lower in the Coop's trade section than in the textbook section...