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Coop President Jerry P. Murphy told the Crimson that the Coop’s policy is to “discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes” because textbook information is “the Coop’s intellectual property.” The Crimson has also quoted Murphy as saying: “We’ve gone to the trouble of collecting the intellectual property of the book lists [from the professors]... [a]nd we wanted to make sure that we’re not going to—my words?...
...They got pretty wise to us and others looking to compare prices on books,” he said, adding that he has been asked twice to leave the Coop textbook floor. “They’ve had a pretty sharp...
According to Crimson Reading’s calculations, the Coop’s textbook prices last semester were 23 percent higher on average than the lowest online retailer’s prices, said Hadfield, who is also a member of The Crimson’s editorial board...
Browsing the Coop’s top floor yesterday, Siddhant S. Singh ’11 sighed while looking at the price tag on a multi-variable calculus textbook...
...textbook for $24 on Ebay,” he said, referring to the introductory economics text by Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, which sells for $167.95 on Amazon.com. “But it takes time, and I need this book...