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In protest of what he says are textbooks’ intolerably high prices — and the dumbing down of their content to appeal to the widest possible market — Professor McAfee has put his introductory economics textbook online free. He says he most likely could have earned a $100,000 advance on the book had he gone the traditional publishing route, and it would have had a list price approaching $200. “This market is not working very well — except for the shareholders in the textbook publishers,” he said. “We have lots of knowledge, but we are not getting it out.
~Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free - NYTimes.com
Awesome. Props to the prof.
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my marketing 301 professor did this in 2001.
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digital music world, he said — rip, burn and mash.” “We are changing textbook publishing from a pipeline to an...
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