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Estimating the event’s attendance to be around 50, the bookstore??s marketing manager and organizer of the event, Heather L. Gain, called the book reading “a success, especially for 12 degrees [outside...
...percent said that it had become a worse place to visit because independent stores had been driven away. When asked which retail establishment was their favorite, respondents picked Harvard Book Store over popular Square destinations like the Coop and CVS.These optimistic statistics coincided with the beginning of the bookstore??s anniversary celebration. The festivities continued in October, when the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Plympton Street was renamed “Frank, Mark & Pauline Kramer Square” in honor of the family that founded and still operates the store.Boston native Mark Kramer first opened the doors...
...noticeable if not obscene: an abbreviated visit to the textbook bazaar will sufficiently validate many of the complaints. The discrepancy between publishers’ list and the Coop’s retail prices may often call into question at least the business sense, if not the integrity, of the bookstore??s proprietors. If nearly everyone acknowledges the price-gouging, why would any student shop there—and, therefore, how could the Coop make any profit...
...Well for all the anti-Coop carping about “community,” the critics fail to realize the bookstore??s rightful place in it: to procure the obscure titles students need, and sell them in a convenient, centralized location. The Coop’s mission indeed includes the intent “to serve the Harvard community,” but also, as those selective readers may not have not noticed, the stipulation that its “operations should be profitable.” The Coop may charge too much...
Either way, this policy will not benefit the Coop, and instead, will further tarnish the bookstore??s image in the mind of the College community...