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I'm imagining it will be quicker than that. There are a lot of schools that use licensed, photocopied "readers" along with or even instead of the actual textbooks. Universities could do much better margins by making these types of texts digital and authors/professors would be able to publish and update at much greater frequency.

Publishers would be much better off building a business model now rather than repeating the RIAA's mistakes.

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Publishers would be much better off building a business model now rather than repeating the RIAA's mistakes.

But as always, existing players mostly seek to preserve income streams, rather than create new ones, even when an unbiased look will show that the existing ones are doomed.

The only publisher I know, offhand, which isn't falling into this trap is Baen Books, and they don't do textbooks. Yet. :)

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