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Amazon takes over university's textbook sales operation
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Textbook costs are a mess. There are now instructors and professors that create their own textbooks and sell them to students - only to upgrade them *yearly* so that students can't sell the older version. Seems a conflict of interest to me.
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While I agree that the cost of textbooks are a mess and that conflicts of interest should be addressed, we should also acknowledge that at least some of these people are advocates for quality education. |
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Anyone visited a college lately? The bookstore is far from an anachronism, it is a GIANT CASH COW! It's not about the books, it's about tee shirts and snacks and "oh, I forgot to bring a trash can."
No, college bookstores aren't going away any time soon. One company that knows this, and has bought into the business heavily, is Barnes & Noble. They're on dozens of major college campuses. This initiative by Amazon is clearly a dagger pointed at B&N's heart. Another one. It almost makes me feel bad for them. |
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Follet is still going to be selling the licensed t-shirts and trash cans. For now. ![]() |
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I think that's why stores like Wal-Mart shift things around now and then too. That way while you're looking for item x you find item's y and z that you have to have.
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The grocery store chain I shop at used to do that every 6 months or so, and I felt like killing someone by the time I left the store. I'm one of those who goes in with a list, grabs only what's on the list and gets out, I hate shopping, and changing the location of everything just made it insanely painful.
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In university that was the most frustrating thing. Professors always wanting the latest edition, and it was very hard to sell the books. The cost of textbooks too is another problem, spent so much money on books and sometimes you don't even use all the books.
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This is what the store at Purdue looks like:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/ama...38984711657493 0ne employee at a help and a bunch of lockers. There is talk they're looking to pick up a bunch of sites from Radio Shack and put in stores like this. But that is just speculation, so far. Would make a ton of sense, though. Last edited by fjtorres; 02-03-2015 at 07:56 PM. |
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My favorite school store (but not for book prices, even with the member rebate) is the Harvard Coop. Last edited by Froide; 02-09-2015 at 12:15 PM. |
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I having the weirdest feeling of deja vu...
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