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...Coop generally carries only one version of a required textbook for a course, while other book-stores often carry multiple editions of popular titles, some cheaper than the edition available at the Coop...
...September rolls around in Boston, businesses greedily await the return of students to campus. And I'm not just talking about the textbook monopolists over at our beloved Coop. While students always plunk down a few dollars here and there for pens and pencils, many also find it useful to make an investment in a computer. The vast majority of first-year students are looking for a computer to take care of their word processing needs for the next four years. And an increasing number of upperclass students are discarding their older machines like summer clothing; buying new notebook...
According to Evan P. Mooney, textbook department manager of the Coop, the price for textbooks has continued its steady rise this year due not so much to inflation but to new policies on the part of publishers that pass increased costs on to the consumer...
Other schools' bookstores, however, do not seem to have the same problem the Coop does. According to Boston College Bookstore Textbook Manager Carol S. Gertz, the BC bookstore rarely has to pay publishers such fees...
After all, he helped write the program, and his textbook, which is required reading for the course, is affectionately referred to by computer science concentrators as "the Bible...