Officials at Kinko's corporate headquartersreport a steady climb in sourcebook production andsales. A hundred of their stores specialize inmaking sourcebooks.
But even sourcebooks are more expensive thanthey once were, as printing companies get seriousabout enforcing copyright laws and force studentsto absorb publishers' fees.
Rosen says one solution may be compilationssimilar to sourcebooks but with longer texts. Thiscustomized publishing would be cheaper forstudents in the long run, he says.
"Everyone is examining it," he says."Publishers are resisting it but you can't fightthe move."
Meanwhile, students are getting around theproblem by sharing books, skipping booksaltogether, or using the reserved reading.
As book prices rise, students find morecreative ways to save. But sometimes beating thesystem has its price too.
Says one student, Allison K. Hughes '94, "Evenphotocopying gets expensive."You'd Better Shop Around
A prolonged search for textbooks at HarvardSquare can pay off in large savings, as thissample shows:
HISTORICAL STUDY A-12
Title,Author Barillari Wordsworth HBS* CoopPeloponnesian War,Thucydides $5.95 $7.16 $5.95 $5.36Force and Statecraft,Craig and George -- -- 13.95 15.00Thirteen Days,Kennedy -- 4.46 -- 6.50Bound to Lead,Nye 10.95 9.90 11.00 10.76
MORAL REASONING 32Nicomachean Ethics,Aristotle (Irwin,ed.) -- 7.16 7.95 7.95A Treatise of HumanNature, Hume -- 7.16 7.95 15.00Ethical Philosophy,Kant (Ellington,ed.) -- -- 9.50 9.50On the Geneaology ofMorals,Nietzsche -- 9.00 10.00 8.96
*Harvard Book Store
Source: Harvard Crimson research