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...thus Crimsonreading.org was born—a Web site where students can compare the cost of required class texts across a handful of Internet vendors as well as the putatively more pricy Coop. This year, however, presented a previously unencountered difficulty. Many course syllabi, typically posted on the Internet in the week or two prior to Shopping Period, did not appear on-line until the day before classes begun. Bereft of syllabi, Crimson Reading had to resort to extreme measures to acquire the lists of required texts for each course...
Last Thursday, the Coop called the cops on three undergraduates who were busily recording ISBNs, or book serial numbers, for Crimsonreading.com, a student-run Web site that allows visitors to compare textbook prices between the pricey Coop and its cheaper, web-based competitors like Amazon.com. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW] The Coop huffed that the ISBNs were their intellectual property since it went through the effort of soliciting and collecting book lists from professors, and that it doesn’t allow extended note taking by students. Dry-eyed, the two Cambridge police officers left the students untouched, and the students continued...
...third floor, where textbooks are sold, at a Coop official’s request after receiving a call from the store at 4:34 p.m. But a Crimson reporter and photographer present did not see anyone removed, and the three students collecting data for the Crimson Reading Web site also said they did not witness the police escorting anyone from the floor...
...Staff and Crimson Reading co-founder Tom D. Hadfield ’08, yesterday’s events represented a turning point for the fortunes of the Crimson Reading Web site, which will benefit from the 450 ISBNs that the three students collected yesterday. Staff said the site has recorded $23,000 in sales so far this semester by routing students to vendors such as Half.com and Amazon.com...
...award, first given out in 2004, provides $2.5 million over five years to established researchers for work that is considered “highly innovative” and “potentially transformative,” according to the NIH Web site...