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
P-Com division of Cylink Corporation in early 1998, rebranding as P-Com Wireless Access Group, and incorporating the M100 and M400 products of its earlier acquisition ACS. The resulting product line-up included spread spectrum products for 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz, encompassing leased-line replacement for 64kbit/s-512kbit/s (AirLink, AirPro and M100), T1/E1 backhaul (AirProT1, AirPro E1, M400), and wireless routing/bridging (DataMetro and DataMetro-II). This line-up may be seen at www.p-com.co.uk which is maintained by a former Cylink UK employee, and which remains online at the time of writing. A number of UK staff, including senior management and engineers left P-Com in