Levy says the company's low overhead--it has just 25 employees, one office and one warehouse--allows it to offer drastic discounts.
According to Levy, Harvard students responded well to the site this year, and so may soon see their school on that pull-down list.
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"We are currently developing a way to have a textbook presence on-line, shooting for this fall," Powell says of the Coop.
And most of the Square's smaller stores have been reaping the rewards of on-line sales for several years.
Davis estimates that 70 percent of Schoenhof's sales are sent through the mail, and on-line orders make up a large chunk of this.
Davis says the store imports books from about 50 countries, and carries language-learning materials in 300 languages.
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