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bobbieinok

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1. Mid 90s many Us had contract w/ bookstore chain that students could only buy texts there

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 07:06 AM

Feb 2019

A Spanish teacher got in trouble because she had bought in Spain copies of a book she used in a class. Bookstore saw that she had ordered no text for a class and freaked out. They complained to admin, which came down hard on every prof.

Some on faculty investigated and learned the school's bookstore was run by a national chain that had this policy everywhere. (The school's contract with the chain was recent. No one on faculty realized that books would now be sold by a monopoly.)

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Mid 90s many Us had contract w/ bookstore chain that students could only buy texts there bobbieinok Feb 2019 #1

In 90s many beginning foreign lang. texts made minimal changes every other yr or so bobbieinok Feb 2019 #2

Also company would tell inquiring prof 1 price, but students paid more bobbieinok Feb 2019 #3