Detroit's Marwil Bookstore or purchasing them on the internet from online competitors, such as Amazon and eBay. After Marwil had been in business at WSU for some 59 years, Brian Kramer had seen textbook prices nearly triple over a period of two decades. According to a 2005 survey conducted by the National Association of College Students, about 25 percent of students had begun purchasing textbooks online. Another drastic change was when Wayne State opened a $6 million, 28,000-square-foot Barnes & Noble college bookstore right across the street in 2002. Marwil didn't have the fancy store front, cafe or music and apparel that was
New Words Bookstore the soon-to-be autonomous entity of Women, Action, & the Media (WAM!). Both New Words Bookstore's and the Center for New Words' papers are housed in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. New Words Bookstore New Words Bookstore was a feminist bookstore (1974 - 2002) based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. New Words, A Women's Bookstore, opened in Somerville, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1974. New Words was one of the earliest feminist bookstores in the country and a pioneer in what was soon to become an international feminist-bookstore/women-in-print movement. The four founders, Rita Arditti, Gilda Bruckman, Mary Lowry, and Jean