1.09.2004
New semester, same old high textbook prices
Daily Mississippian: "Once again, University of Mississippi students are trudging back to the Ole Miss Bookstore and other bookstores around town to find themselves shocked at the sticker prices of their required textbooks.
Some have spent $200; some have even spent $600 on textbooks. Some haven't even bought them.
'I plan on buying them today,' a junior criminal justice major Richard Owens said. 'If I'm lucky, I will only spend $300 between the (Ole Miss Bookstore) and Campus Book Mart.'"
But two students at the University of Central Florida have an online solution to the problem, the Central Florida Future reports: "While on a road trip, [Steve] Leonard and his business partner Mike Potter, who is also a 22-year-old computer science major, developed the idea for a Web site that would allow college students to buy and sell anything from books to couches to cars from fellow college students.
Launched in August of 2003, they named their site XYZTrader.com, after they abandoned the initial name of UCFTrader. 'We didn't want to get a cease-and-desist order,' Leonard said..."
MORE: The Crimson White, of the University of Alabama, has this: "Book prices are going up at a higher rate than tuition is," [Robert Palmer, director of all locations of the University Supply Store] said. "They try to blame it on the price of paper, they try to blame it on all the added costs associated, and sometimes publishers try to also blame the wholesale book industry."
Some have spent $200; some have even spent $600 on textbooks. Some haven't even bought them.
'I plan on buying them today,' a junior criminal justice major Richard Owens said. 'If I'm lucky, I will only spend $300 between the (Ole Miss Bookstore) and Campus Book Mart.'"
But two students at the University of Central Florida have an online solution to the problem, the Central Florida Future reports: "While on a road trip, [Steve] Leonard and his business partner Mike Potter, who is also a 22-year-old computer science major, developed the idea for a Web site that would allow college students to buy and sell anything from books to couches to cars from fellow college students.
Launched in August of 2003, they named their site XYZTrader.com, after they abandoned the initial name of UCFTrader. 'We didn't want to get a cease-and-desist order,' Leonard said..."
MORE: The Crimson White, of the University of Alabama, has this: "Book prices are going up at a higher rate than tuition is," [Robert Palmer, director of all locations of the University Supply Store] said. "They try to blame it on the price of paper, they try to blame it on all the added costs associated, and sometimes publishers try to also blame the wholesale book industry."
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