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Campus bookstores' functions change as Amazon moves in
Tie-ups with online retailer mean students buying or renting textbooks online, changing the business dramatically
Published Sun, Sep 18, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Stony Brook, New York
AS school started at Stony Brook University this month, two freshmen, Juan Adames and John Taveras, set out to buy textbooks.
They had not heard yet that the bookstore was a bookstore no more.
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