September 11, 1998

Bookseller Admits Underpaying Students for Used Books

A textbook wholesaler has agreed to pay the campus of the University of Tennessee here $380,000, after an audit found that several of the company's employees had for nearly a decade underpaid students for their used books.

Follett Campus Resources, one of the country's largest usedbook wholesalers, will provide about $280,000 for the underpayments and pay $100,000 for damaging the reputation of the campus's bookstore, which is