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?I f I mui it. | Campus"*"*1 Caro,ln<?" Library .'^J mS BI ^_ggggggg__. n^H^fck A fij ^iIb^ ^^hhhbhbbbhh b|^ ?? ^ ^ |j|^ *^-*' ^ ^^BBBBBS^^ Volume LXIX, No. 57 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Sept. 6, 1 978 Increases ru iB i' i ^ llL. S*<:: jfj" fSSIlib^ ~mk. \ .? $ By Jim P News Edit m i rextDooK prices nave in because of rising publist son, director of the Cam Swanson said publisl textbook costs, ana then g discount. "Late last spi listincr whinh inrliiHoH h ivauvaa AiiViMl.lVT4 V 1 increases. A number o substantial/' Swanson s prices tend to run in three "We had a similar cych tremendous increase," h Bill Rorie, Campus Boo bookstore sells textbooks i The publishers allow for $100 of new books sold a gives the bookstore a $2( n in 3 to 4-year c* Publishe v-.i ^ i h.,3 ' \ S & : - V !* *? * |: |] > * . .. : jplllfyifi11 ^n> ii *.it<j|ih^ii?i^^wg^|(|^gg^jii?j)iii^'i!;ifri|(]yi>a>W(w?iiW>><<<Bw<^WN?t>>><t??<< ^tbssS^mSbsSFw^' " Wfegj ^^^?888BB88H|^^F^^^::^^y^^^^^^^y':f:::':: n* : :^s.^*-i:.::':^^^^ hiliips " icreased at local bookstores [je n ling costs, said Ben Swan pus Bookstore. lers and authors decide y^] ;ive bookstores a 20 percent pr0j -ing we got a publishers' r vo or uiree hundred price m0] f the increases are very Rer laid, adding that growing use to four-year cycles. text 5 around *74 or 75. We had a T ie said. s^uc kstore supervisor, said the said at the publisher's list pric*. bad a 20 nercent nrofit. Thn? o. ? B ? r~ """"" f Vy I t the publisher's list price fu(u ) profit. Swa k/?A? / dT? ts cause ] mm ?i >i Pff.v .. ".: j A. : *1^ d LXriilX^ "\^^5;:^j!^s?^!SS2jS2^Kil^^^i * fHwrasSSIa ?^ ~;W?> ^?##P? '|^ r/K,'' ?v 'W^65 4 of the increases are very su i Swanson, Campus Booksto orie added that the USC Campus rely self-supporting, unlike m (stores which must be subsidi jriations from their universities, orie said the bookstore tries to s iey. "I go to the used book war ltucky, Chicago and New York to d books as I can." He said warehoi books for 25 percent off the current HE CAMPUS BOOKSTORE also lents used books that will remain in I a $10 new book sells for $7.50 used, k from students for $5. urrently, used books in good enough ire use are bought back at a co tnson said. Thus, a used book in it book price ?k t i =^f %A number would be sold by the book! . . . ? a book in ragged, but us b stan Hal. i , Swanson said a system > re director the used book it Bookstore is whereby books in differ any college would be bought and sold f zed by ap- their condition. Howevei books enlarged, stratifyinj >ave students impractical because of tt ehouses in bookstore and the speed r( buy as many the shelves. ises sell used : book price. ? SWANSON SAID prices . - - ^ uie coniroi 01 me dooksioi can decrease the cost to sti textbooks for a course the and is bought ^ three ^ added condition for Horie said bookstore pr nstant price, costs go into the universi lint condition academic scholarships. hikes .: X-Xv&v"-: . 4 . ft? y - ? np-;:'. siore ior ine same pnce as able condition. vas attempted in the past, larket became so large, ent degrees of condition or a price compatible with \ as the market for used 1 used hook nrirAs hwamp le quantity bought by the squired in getting books on for new books are beyond *e. However, professors idents by not requiring six 1 J Jl I. I. - ? y couiu leacn just as wen ofits not used for operating ty treasury to be used for