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I wonder what is the big deal, it has been happening for decades...
WHEN one undergraduate wanted to buy a textbook for the coming semester, he was told by the campus book store that it was out of stock. But the 22-year-old Nanyang Technological University student,who declined to be named, did not want to be left behind in his reading.
The solution?
He bought a photocopied version of his textbook for $2 from that samebookstore. This was only a fraction of the book's usual price of about $22.
What he did not know was that the Yun Nan Book Store had contravened copyright laws here by copying and selling these textbooks.
The issue was reported in The Nanyang Chronicle, the NTU campus newspaper, last Friday.
The university said it is investigating why the bookstore did not stock enough copies of the books and sold photocopied versions instead.
It said this was the first time the school has received complaints since the bookstore opened in February this year.
The university quoted the original prices of the books as between $20 and $30 each.
The bookstore has since stopped selling the photocopied books.
. It is often due to delay in the availablity of the books that made student do this. It does not make sense to photocopy as it would normally cost more than the original. It is under the 'Boh Bian Act' that peple does this.
