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Bookstores continued from page 1A munication for Barnes and Noble, Inc. “Competition allows us to fo cus on providing a high standard of customer service.” A lot is at stake on both sides of the debate, since book sales have become a big business in recent years. Barnes and Noble College Bookstores, Inc. was named as one of the nation’s largest compa nies in one of Forbes’ Private 500 lists at the end of last year. Ac cording to its Web site, the com pany made an estimated 1999 rev enue of $830 million from sales at the more than 350 college book stores it operates. At Mother Kali’s Books in Eu gene, co-manager Tova said the store sometimes feels the squeeze from larger bookstore chains. But carrying University textbooks helps bring in new customers, and the location across from Sa cred Heart Medical Center keeps the bookstore visible, Tova said. In general, the community is supportive of the local independ ent bookstores, she said, though many people don’t realize how important their business is. “People need to know that when you shop at the chains, you’re putting nails in the coffin of the independent bookstores,” Tova said. “Every book people buy here is really important. ” • The University Bookstore has also been feeling pressure from other book retailers, especially on-line textbook companies, said Chris Standish, the bookstore coursebooks manager. “We really can’t compete on price alone,” he said. “We can’t sell the merchandise for less than we pay for it. But we do offer dis counts to faculty, students and staff, and we feel that’s a'real strong selling point.” Standish added that most stu dents like the convenience of vis iting the campus bookstore and don’t have to worry about ship ping costs or waiting for weeks for their textbooks. But John Bates, co-founder and “chief evangelist” of leading on line textbook retailer BigWords.com, said the compa ny’s profits for the last couple of terms have been "absolutely through the roof.” “We’re sucking up the market share like crazy,” he said, herald ing the era of on-line textbook or dering as opening up the market for the benefit of the students. “Far from making a monopoly, we’re breaking the monopoly,” he said. “This is an exciting time for students.” While the on-line company may be successful in other areas around the country, it’s not having that big of an impact here, Stan dish said. The University Book store, however, has started offer ing a course textbook locator and an “Early Duck” book ordering service in recent years, to entice students who want to use the In ternet to order books. And that’s the smartest thing small independent bookstores can do to stay competitive, said Valerie Valente, vice president of marketing for Textbooks.com. “The best thing for a local guy to do is have his own Web site,” she said. “I think the market is pulling towards the Internet. The beautiful thing about it is, any body can participate in it.” HIV program continued from page 1A vention activity with the goal of promoting the adoption and main tenance of HIV risk-reduction be haviors by clients with identified risk-reduction needs. “The very distinguishing fea-. ture of this program is motivation al interviewing,” Prevention Case Manager Marc Miller said. “What this involves is one-on-one client assessment of HIV risk behavior, psychosocial and health service needs concerning HIV preven tion.” Although the program is free, it is not open to everyone. The client must have an identifiable high risk behavior and must be willing to change. Lane County is one of three counties in Oregon that will pilot this program. Benton County and Multnomah County are the other two. Rebecca Harmon, who helps ad minister the program at the state level from Portland, said the Ore gon Health Division chose to pilot the program in Lane County be cause of its mix of urban and rural populations. She said Lane Coun ty was also a good test site because of the high number of HIV-positive people in the county. “There are other places around the country doing HIV prevention case management but not in this form,” Harmon said. “This is an intensive program with multiple sessions, individually tailored to the needs of each client.” Although funding for the pro gram comes from the Oregon Health Division, Oregon Health Sciences University serves as the parent organization of the pro gram. The purpose of the program is to decrease the spread of HIV and help clients control high-risk behavior like drug use and multi ple partners. “We want to help them enhance their readiness to make positive behavioral changes,” Harmon said. “This program will help our clients live healthier lives and not transmit the virus. ” According to Janet Winters, the other prevention case manager at LCPHS, the need for this program arose from the fact that people would test negative for HIV and test positive for HIV only a short time later. She said this means pa tients were not getting enough ed ucation about their risk behaviors while testing. “This program provides more quality of time and more quantity of time for people to look at their risk behaviors,” Winters said. “We’re aiming at people with high-risk behaviors so that their tests will stay negative.” Calendar Thursday, Feb. 10 “Medieval Scribal Psychology: Clues from Medieval Gospei Manu scripts,” A presentation by Dr. Sergejus Temcinnas from the Uni versity of Vilnius in Lithuania will be held at 4 p.m. in the Oregon Humanities Seminar Room, 154 PLC Human Resources Mini-Seminars. No preregistration needed. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Rogue Room (semi nars) and Century Rooms B-E (indi vidual meetings), EMU. For infor mation, call Miki Powers, 346-2950. Craft Center Lonely Pot Sale: Fea tu res the work of Jason Solomon and Joe Davis. 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Craft Center, EMU. Free, For infor mation, call 346-4361. Documentary Film Premiere: View "Roll On, Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Power Administration,” co-directed and produced by Michael Majdic, Knight library Media Services, and Denise Matthews, journalism and Communication. 7 p.m. Browsing Room, Knight Library. Free. For in formation, call 346-3091. Bern's Ski Bus lo Willamette Pass. Ml. Bachelor \ Hoodoo! MBlBMiW «IT> .-I Sign up at Berg’s! Call For Details, Reservations & Information. 13th & Lawrence • Eugene * 683-13001 USED BOOK SALE over 100,000 ~ Used Books PAPERBACKS 25t & SI HARDBACKS $1 & up Every Thursday. Frida) & Saturday Hours: 10am-6 pm Old Post Office - 795 Almaden St Worldly >' '"* •* -y “'is „ " — -. 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