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by CalmQuiet
5989 days ago
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As a college instructor and a citizen concerned about the cost of financing higher education, I share the outrage over textbook costs. But I don't expect to be outraged for long about the dinosaus textbooks are. The sale, bianuual revision of a text, and sale of its next edition is breeding revolts and moves to alternative models. If I get tired of waiting when I retire (soon) I will help launch the revolt: turning to models of publicly-held, easy-to-update, non-tree-cutting formats such as wikis. I don't attempt to prophecy often, but: "Textbooks are the next... newspapers." |
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