Caution: Writing down book prices might infringe intellectual property and get you thrown out of bookstores. No kidding, as it happened at the
Harvard Coop bookstore.
Quote:
Jarret A. Zafran '09 said he was asked to leave the Coop after writing down the prices of six books required for a junior Social Studies tutorial he hopes to take.
"I'm a junior and every semester I do the same thing. I go and look up the author and the cost and order the ones that are cheaper online and then go back to the Coop to get the rest," Zafran said.
"I'm not a rival bookstore, I'm a student with an I.D.," he added.
Coop President Jerry P. Murphy '73 said that while there is no Coop policy against individual students copying down book information, "we discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes."
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