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Takashi Sakamoto might be the most hated man in the Japanese publishing business. The founder and president of Japan's largest used-book store chain, Bookoff, is routinely accused of everything from unfair competition to cheating authors out of their royalties to corrupting Japan's youth. One newspaper recently suggested that his company was a threat to Japanese culture itself, while others charge that he is single-handedly destroying the nation's book industry...
...That kind of customer loyalty has the competition crying foul. In 2000, Hironobu Hamada, a director of Kodansha?Japan's largest publisher?told his shareholders that used-book stores could lead to unfair trade practices. And Tetsuo Okawa, director of the Japan Booksellers Federation, claims that Sakamoto, by purchasing from the public, encourages teens to shoplift books from other retailers so that they can fence them at Bookoff. Sakamoto finds the criticisms a little baffling. "I think we can live peacefully together," he says, "but they keep finding new ways to attack...
...success is controversial in Germany: Renate Künast, the government Minister for Consumer Protection, last month vowed to "break their power." She was quickly chided by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. But her remarks came just as Germany's Justice Ministry was working on a revision of the unfair trading law, and others rallied to her defense, including agricultural groups and makers of brand-name products. It's a microcosm of a divisive and peculiarly European debate: How low should retail prices be allowed to go? Predatory pricing - selling below cost to drive competitors out of business - is illegal...
Asking students to make choices about their next semester without having even finished the midterms for the current one is inherently unfair. Students already have intense mid-semester workloads; this proposal would further burden them with researching and choosing classes for a semester that is still two vacations away. Furthermore, success—or lack thereof—in the current semester commonly dictates the classes one takes in the next. For instance, first-years often decide their concentration based how well they enjoy their fall classes. Preregistration undermines the effectiveness of student decisions by providing insufficient information about their...
...preregistration proposal soon to face the faculty would almost certainly lead to greater undergraduate dissatisfaction with classes. Courses will be filled with less enthusiastic students, administrators and professors will be busied with unnecessary bureaucracy and instituted lottery systems will be unfair. Everyone stands to lose. There may be problems with shopping period as it presently stands, but the implications of preregistration lead to disturbing repercussions for undergraduate education at Harvard. If the Faculty has respect for the needs of students, it will destroy this preregistration proposal when it has the chance...