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:Free Digital Texts Begin to Challenge Costly College Textbooks in California
Free Digital Texts Begin to Challenge Costly College Textbooks in California
Aug 19, 2008, 22 :34 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (2904 reads)

(Other stories by Gale Holland)

""Publishers have broken an implicit contract with academics, in which we gave our time and they weren't too greedy," McAfee wrote on the web page for his book. McAfee said many publishers, going for the lowest common denominator, were making some books too simple."

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Aug 20, 2008, 02:09:10
 
Some people just can't see the conne ...   Is open source related, hence Linux related   
jp
Aug 20, 2008, 02:42:18
 
Some academics would rather cash in, ins ...   It's about time. But academia is divided   
Bernard Swiss
Aug 20, 2008, 04:55:41
 
In Indonesia, Ministry of Education laun ...   Free Digital Text book from Indonesia government   
I Made Wiryana
Aug 20, 2008, 10:05:51
 
> Some academics would rather cash in, i ...   Re: It's about time. But academia is divided   
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