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College-store association challenges `dual discounting'

Authors :
Selingo, Jeffrey
Source :
Chronicle of Higher Education. 8/15/97, Vol. 43 Issue 49, pA31. 2p. 2 Color Photographs.
Publication Year :
1997

Abstract

Focuses on reasons for the difference in cost of college textbooks at college bookstores and retail bookstores. Why academic publishers are charging campus store more for books that are assigned for classes than they charge retail bookstores for the same titles; A lawsuit being filed by an association of college stores against Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Addison Wesley Longman; Why these publishers engage in `dual discounting.'

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00095982
Volume :
43
Issue :
49
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Chronicle of Higher Education
Publication Type :
News
Accession number :
9708171717