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...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 large quantity of a particular title 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...
...store's main source of profit comes not from its textbook division but from other wares, such as trade books, clothing and dorm room furnishings...
...done as a service," Sullivan says of the textbook floor...