[19292] in APO-L
Re: Fraternities and Sororities Lower Students Textbook
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Wright)
Tue Oct 6 23:54:55 1998
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:03:15 -0600
Reply-To: John Wright <Johnw@4LESS.NET>
From: John Wright <Johnw@4LESS.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Rich,
I did some investigating into this issue of offering an online textbook
exchange on campus. I went to the student association website at U Buffalo
and it turns out that they apparently can offer a book exchange because they
have one on their website right now!!! Their website is
http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/sawww/.
If you click on the 'textbook exchange' button it sends you to... guess
where... www.BookSwap.com - the same company that started this discussion.
Clicking on the button also gives you an idea of what a customized site
would look like for any local chapter that wanted to launch the service
(http://www.bookswap.com/textbooks/index.cfm?SchoolID=1073). Just replace
the USA with APO and the links would point back to your website. Anyway, I
thought it interesting that the one example of a school where online book
exchanges were 'banned' was already using the service. I still don't
understand why every chapter doesn't sign up with BookSwap to start their
own online book exchange as a service to their universities.
-----Original Message-----
From: RIch Quodomine <trrdq@sprintmail.com>
To: John Wright <Johnw@4LESS.NET>
Cc: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [APO-L] Fraternities and Sororities Lower Students Textbook
Costs
>At Epsilon Sigma (U Buffalo), we had another problem (or more accurately,
the
>Student Association had another problem): The University has banned all
>student-run cut-rate book exchanges because it interferes with the contract
>signed to Follett's Bookstores which runs the UB bookstore. In essence, the
>campus is the sole domain of Follett's and no bookstore, even student-run
can
>exist there without Follett's suing the university. This contract runs
until
>2028, or when my children will be graduating from my alma mater. =)
>
>-- Rich Quodomine
>
>
