Book store prices not as varied as reported

While Specialty Books did rank cheapest of three Uptown bookstores in a comparison of 10 students' Spring Quarter book purchases, College Book Store's prices were not as high as reported.

Because the survey compared a new book price for three texts at College Book Store, 50 S. Court St., with used book prices at Specialty, 5 N. Court St., and Follett's University Bookstore, 63 S. Court St, the article "Student shoppers seek book bargains" on page one of Tuesday's edition was misleading.

Among the 10 students, 39 books were purchased – not the 80 previously reported.

Once the prices of the three texts at all three bookstores were adjusted in the survey, Specialty Books' total was $1454. Follett's charged $1546.50, while College Book Store's total was $1551.30.

- Ben Roode