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
Strand Bookstore 12th Street and Broadway for $8.2 million, by which time the Strand was the largest used bookstore in the world. As of June 2017, the store had around 2.5 million books. At that time, the oldest book for sale in the Strand is an edition of "Magna Moralia", which is priced at $4,500. The most expensive book is a copy of James Joyce's "Ulysses" at $38,000. Strand Bookstore The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of