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...Harvard Coop called police yesterday after three undergraduates collecting information for a student-run textbook-shopping Web site refused to leave the bookstore. The two Cambridge police officers who arrived allowed the students to continue copying down book identification numbers, which they did for two and a half hours before leaving on their own terms...
...Hadfield added that he encourages all students to continue collecting textbook information from the books sold at the Coop if they wish to comparison-shop online themselves...
...rift between Crimson Reading and its partner, the Undergraduate Council. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, whose organization works with Crimson Reading to maintain the site and database, said that Crimson Reading should respect the Coop’s request that students not write down textbook information in the store...
...Staff also said that Crimson Reading’s renewed efforts at collecting textbook ISBNs from the Coop itself came after fresh assurances from several parties—including an intellectual property lawyer—that such actions were legal and not a violation of intellectual property laws, as the Coop has alleged...
...prices at the Coop get more ridiculous, and students fight back more vigorously, but until now, that fight was a fair one (and that’s not even counting coursepacks). We’ve all been in situations where the same book is priced differently in the textbook section as it is in the actual bookstore. We’ve all had friends that had to pay $50 for a coursepack no thicker than a quarter of an inch. And frankly, we are tired...