Say No to Renaming UBC Bookstore
UBC claims that the name UBC Bookstore does not adequately reflect the products and services that the store provides and that the word bookstore" is limiting and restraining to their business and to t... continue reading »
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"Affiliation writer and reader The suggested change of name is deplorable and unjustifiable"
"Affiliation UBC PhD student; Poli Sci Using UBC Central as a name for a department within the bookstore, or a seperate entity adjoining it, for the additional services, is logical and useful. However, renaming the bookstore, and a shift in the emphasis o"
"Affiliation FHIS department The word "bookstore" is comforting and connotes academia. Central is a commercial term dedicated to malls and bus stations. A campus is not a campus without a bookstore in my opinion. When Sophia Books disappeared from Hasting"
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"Affiliation UBC Press A very silly idea - just leave the name as 'Bookstore'"
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"Affiliation Department of English Works of language, whatever the platform, must remain the heart of this vital service."
"Affiliation Staff I offer my 100\% support to this issue"
"Affiliation Dept of FHIS Given the justification for this change, let's be honest and just call the place; "Books Used-2-B Us""
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"Affiliation UBC Central? Really.... Time to go back to the design room."
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"Affiliation Critical Studies / English The rationale seems flawed. Anyone who has entered a bookstore in the last decade or so knows that bookstores have evolved. Why try to hide or minimize the role of books in university life? If the store plans to red"
"silly move, very stupid idea and waste of time! Bookstore says it all ... what are we stupid to think they just sell books? The bookshop never did and never will."
"Affiliation retired setsa ad example; dowmgrades books"
