Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Professors Gone Paperless
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Continuing their campaign to draw attention to the cost of textbooks, the
>| Student Public Interest Research Groups celebrated Tuesday what they?re
>| calling a major milestone ? reaching 1,000 professors who?ve signed a
>| statement supporting the use of free, online and open source textbooks.
> `----
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/16/textbooks
>
> The literature/publishing industry is affected just like the proprietary
> software industry and media industry. It will need to adapt to new business
> models.
>
Textbooks always were hitting a very narrow market. More online
resources will surely help, although finding ways of getting printing
costs right down will also assist here. I still find, even after all
these years, that reading anything more than about 10 pages long is far
far easier in book format, and handling a 1,000 page textbook is
definitely easier on paper. Also, reading paper-based books doesn't use
electricity, either...
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