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...offer file swapping without the viruses prevalent on illegal sites, so customers would pay. Compared with online music stores, peer-to-peer services still attract the most users--by some accounts, 60 million people in the U.S. "That's about the number who voted for George Bush!" said Sam Yagan, president of MetaMachine Inc., the company behind eDonkey, a free peer-to-peer site...
When Danny F. Yagan ’06 realized that he could get books for his economics class much cheaper online than from the Coop, he assembled seven Currier House classmates to set up a service to make the discounts more widely available. The result, an online service called Redline Textbooks, now makes required volumes available to Harvard students at lower prices. This spring, 40 percent of the 333 students enrolled Biological Sciences 50, a genetics and genomics course, bought their books from Redline...
...Dean Kidd was actually really helpful in making things run smoothly, directing me to people in the University who might be helpful,” Yagan says...
...four student curricular review representatives—Schachter, Mahan, Danny F. Yagan ’06 and Emily E. Riehl ’06—will stay over the summer to help select the 10 to 20 best essays and then revise them. They hope to distribute the “mini-book” over Freshmen Week and to hold forums or activities to engage the freshmen in the Curricular Review process...
...There are huge efficiency gains in our business model compared to the Coop’s,” Yagan said. “I think that more and more people are going to be asking themselves when they think about buying a textbook at the Coop, ‘Why am I paying 20 or 30 extra bucks to wait in line...