Open Textbooks Gaining Ground: Flat World in 400 Colleges

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9 pointsnoaharc4 comments

"expensive doorstop collections"

If the textbooks end up being doorstops, maybe the problem is with the courses, not with the books? I like owning the textbooks from courses I really enjoyed.

Or it could be something that simply does not make a good reference. I kept many of my math and computer science text books as references for later.

On the other hand, the political science class I took made us read through many books where reading them once was very enlightening, but I have never felt a desire to refer back to them.

Great idea, though I'm wondering if they're offering them in PDF format what's stopping students from paying $1 each and sharing them around?

Since they're CC licenced you'd be legally entitled to share them anyway.

Has anyone mirrored the books to break them out of the confusing web site?

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