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College-store association challenges `dual discounting'
- Source :
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Chronicle of Higher Education . 8/15/97, Vol. 43 Issue 49, pA31. 2p. 2 Color Photographs. - Publication Year :
- 1997
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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.'
- Subjects :
- *COLLEGE stores
*PUBLISHING
*TEXTBOOKS
*COST
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00095982
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 49
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Publication Type :
- News
- Accession number :
- 9708171717