Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Google Alert - college textbooks

Amazon Sues College Store Group Over Ads Complaint
ABC News
By RACHEL METZ AP Technology Writer Amazon.com Inc. is asking a judge to declare that the online retailer's ads for discounted new and used college textbooks are neither false nor misleading, contrary to complaints by the trade association that ...
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Picking a Fight
Inside Higher Ed
For years Amazon and other Internet retailers have been moving into a college textbook market that was virtually oligopolistic 15 years ago. Most college towns had only the college-run bookstore and one or two independent shops. ...
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Amazon.com Sues College Stores Association Over Textbook Ads
Bloomberg
By Karen Gullo and Joseph Galante - Tue May 03 22:16:20 GMT 2011 Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the biggest online retailer, sued for a court order declaring that its advertised discounts of 30 percent on new college textbooks and 90 percent on used ones ...
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Entrepreneur has a textbook case for a startup
Houston Chronicle
By SANDRA BRETTING Emely Galvez's used-book website matches up people who are in the market for college textbooks with those who are selling them. As the daughter of entrepreneurs and niece of a successful restaurateur, Emely Galvez, 22, ...
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Flat World Knowledge Celebrates Free Comic Book Day With a Graphic Novel ...
Marketwire (press release)
Flat World Knowledge is the largest publisher of free and open college textbooks for students worldwide. Committed to making higher education more affordable and accessible, the company provides students with free online access to complete, ...
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Woman who buys back textbooks pepper sprayed, robbed of money, books by ...
The Republic
Police in a western Pennsylvania college town are looking for a man who pepper sprayed a woman who works at a college textbook buyback stand, then took two books and some money from her. Police in Indiana, Pa. say they're still looking for the suspect ...
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