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...Basically, if our textbook department were separate from the Coop, it would at best break even," Powell says. "Absolutely, without shopping period it would be more profitable...
Workers at the Coop textbook department are also frustrated by post shopping period returns...
...Those students who do shop a course and later decide to drop the course generally purchase a textbook or textbooks," Powell says. "Students coming by later on look for the textbook and it might not be there, so we reorder the book...
This year, the cost increase is due to a February crackdown on Square businesses who violated copyright laws by neglecting to pay publishers' fees. Copyright fees now comprise more than 50 percent of textbook costs, according to William Witt, copyright officer in Harvard's Office of Sourcebook Publications...
Although selection in the trade and textbook sections of the Coop may improve, some booksellers said centralization of book purchasing could lead to fewer choices in the long...