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...their own printers. And the future is not far away. If the College moves quickly to adopt these recommendations, then you should expect to be paying less for coursepacks as soon as next year. That means there will be more money in your pocket to pay for exorbitantly expensive textbooks??€”but that’s another story. Tom D. Hadfield ’08, a Crimson editorial comper, is a government concentrator in Eliot House...
...that they’re back at Harvard, though, it’s time for these students to focus on themselves again. They’re looking forward to seeing friends, eating peanut butter, changing the HUDS menus, reading textbooks??€”and getting to stay up past...
Closer to home, textbooks??€™ soft-cover cousins aren’t getting any cheaper either. Coursepacks that Harvard Printing and Publication Services (HPPS) used to handle are now being farmed out to XanEdu, a for-profit printer, and sold at the Harvard Coop. The extra distribution costs plus the Coop’s markup can only mean higher prices for students (then again, HPPS’s abrupt departure from the coursepack printing business means their low prices must have been to some extent financially unsustainable...
...textbook publishers, face only as much pressure to lower prices as students and professors can exert. This situation is unlikely to change anytime soon. However, through some of the simple steps outlined—using e-resources, submitting reading lists earlier, remaining compatible with old editions, and avoiding switching textbooks??€”professors and TFs can begin to exert this pressure, and save students money in the process. Our community of educated minds must become a community of educated consumers...
...board’s unabashed propagandizing comes despite a 1995 law passed by the Texas senate restricting the board’s authority to vet textbooks??€”factual inaccuracy is the only basis on which they are allowed to judge. But apparently the Board of Education does not see legality as a barrier to its mission to eradicate—in the words of Board member Terri Leo—“asexual stealth phrases...