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on sale coach purses bookstores labor intensively to prepare for student book sales. According to records from Virginia Tech Services, the organization that runs both of the university bookstores, $438,000 was spent on textbooks to stock its two stores."We don't get into the business of picking and choosing," said Dave Wilson, associate director for Virginia Tech Services. "If a professor says they need something, we do whatever it takes to get it."Providing students with textbooks is profitable for both local stores and stores around the country, with recent figures showing a steady increase in price. A 2005 study from the US Government Accountability Office showed a 186 percent jump in overall textbook costs for students from 1986 2004. Diffell speculated that textbook publishers were the reason for the price increase."Every two years they put out a new edition, and the reason they do, and they'll say it's so they can provide the latest information; well how much can you change calculus in two years?" Diffell said. "The primary reason for so many new editions is to kill the used book market."Diffell was pessimistic on any change in price."All students can really do is try to look for used books," Diffell said. Despite talk of overly high prices, both stores defended their prices."Our prices are very competitive. Textbooks are expensive, but we do something different here that most other college bookstores don't do, which is give a 10 percent discount, which saves students thousands of dollars," said Don Williams, executive director of Virginia Tech Services. "And since we give a 10 percent discount, Tech