Book bargaining

By Pitt News Staff

Sophomore Zach Bowman searches the racks in the Book Center’s basement as yet another semester… Sophomore Zach Bowman searches the racks in the Book Center’s basement as yet another semester gets under way at Pitt. If Bowman decides to resell those books in a few months, he will be joiniing a billion dollar industry. According to the Book Industry Study Group — a nonprofit research organization — used book sales topped $2.2 billion in the United States in 2004, totaling 8.4 percent of total consumer spending on books.