Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the cost-per-class figure is part of tuition and therefore covered under financial aid, textbook prices are lopped in with pocket expenses...
...easiest and simplest remedy for high textbook costs is for students to buy used books, but that requires action by professors and the Coop...
...Coop has been fantastic in its willingness to work with both Harvard College and the U.C. on some of the perceived textbook pricing problems," Rollert says...
...basic tenet of Ec 10 is that free market competition makes for cheaper and better products, but in the textbook industry, Coop competitors don't offer a much better deal...
...challenge is, can you find the 12 or 14 books that you need [at another store] while I know you can get those here," Murphy says. "We take it upon ourselves to carry every book requested, regardless of the quantity." Moreover, textbook purchases at the Coop are not taxed, while those at Harvard Book Store...