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rextDooK prices nave in
because of rising publist
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Swanson said publisl
textbook costs, ana then g
discount. "Late last spi
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increases. A number o
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prices tend to run in three
"We had a similar cych
tremendous increase," h
Bill Rorie, Campus Boo
bookstore sells textbooks i
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gives the bookstore a $2(
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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
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kstore supervisor, said the said
at the publisher's list pric*. bad
a 20 nercent nrofit. Thn? o.
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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
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%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.
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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
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ofits not used for operating
ty treasury to be used for