May 19, 2000
Queen's U., in Ontario, Creates a Web Site That Reviews Textbooks
When it comes to textbooks, passions run high. Too bulky, too expensive, and, adding insult to injury, sometimes hardly used.
To help professors select textbooks, the bookstore at the Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, created an online review site (http://www.campusbookstore.com/queens/).
"Students say to us: 'We bought a $100 textbook and only read two chapters.' That's the No. 1 irritant," says Christopher Tabor, general manager of the
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