Textbook Battle Brews At Harvard's Bookstore

A battle over book prices is raging in Harvard Square between student leaders and the Harvard Coop, the book store created by students 125 years ago to cut down on costs. Amid a national furor over rising costs of college texts, Harvard students say they want the Coop to hand over the list it creates each year of books required for Harvard courses, so they can be listed on crimsonreading.org, a student-run online bookstore that offers alternative sources for texts, often at lower prices. The bookstore refuses to cooperate, and that led to an incident last week. Read more at:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/09/26/in_harvard_square_a_war_over_words/