Course Coordinator Gwendolyn A. Wong said that given mistakes made last year, the price hike was unavoidable.
Wong said that in determining the cost of last spring's sourcebook, she failed to take into account the increased cost of articles from the New York Times.
Unbeknownst to Wong, the Times had raised its permissions fee from 25 cents per page to one dollar per page, she says.
As a result, the Ec 10 department lost $7,000 dollars last spring.
And, while it was more convenient for students, selling the sourcebooks out of the Science Center was a fiasco as well, Wong said.
The Science Center distributors waited months before they reimbursed the Ec 10 departments for the sourcebooks.
"It was almost until the end of the fiscal year before we actually received any money from them," Wong said.
In an attempt not to lose any more money, Wong said the Ec 10 department then decided to use the Harvard Coop's publishers for last semester's sourcebook.
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