This marked the end of the Ec 10 department's relationship with the Coop.
"We said, 'we're not playing with you any more,'" Wong said, "And we dropped them."
Wong said she found the best price around with BFS. And with the nearly 65 dollars charged per sourcebook, she says the Ec 10 department will break even for the first time in years.
"I'm sure there's a lot of things to be straightened out," Wong said. "Right now, we're just trying to find the best price for the students."
Supply and Demand
Although Ec 10 generally enrolls about 800 students, the publishers had initially stocked only 50 books per day.
The mix-up resulted briefly in long lines and some confusion, McDonough said.
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