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to compensate for that, especially in this market,
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by giving discounts to faculty members stocking their books
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at the bookstore.
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This is somewhat controversial, although it's Barnes and Noble that
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has tried to make it controversial by bringing it up with the
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university and saying, "Now, isn't this a kind of bribery?"
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But that's the way that a store like Labyrinth,
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or like Book Haven before it,
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was able to try to be price
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competitive among people it knew wanted to buy from them,
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those professors who stock their book at an independent bookstore.
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So, back to this question of