This week’s Imprint issue’s cover story talks about how UW Retail Services is essentially scamming Feds out of $18,000 in the acquisition of term-by-term textbook list. What used to be provided freely to the Feds Used Bookstore is now going to cost Feds $6000/term for the list of books.
This is quite rediculous considering that UW Retail Services is essentially charging money for what should be free and public information. The deal also comes with a crappy termination clause as well where Feds needs to give 30-day notice for termination, and UW Retail Services can terminate at any time.
The bookstore sucks. It’s time for work. :@

start your web-scrapers, gentlement!
@Dan w/ Amazon ECS =D
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