[aleph_minus_one]

IMO, if universities want to use textbooks, they should use their resources to write their own, open-access ones rather then using commercial ones.

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[micw]

Absolutely. Same applies for schools.

In particular, not every school/university should do it by it's own. But they all together should do so (e.g. by funding the creation of open content).

That would allow to give out books (or copy content from it) for free, make it accessible to more students.

[ImPostingOnHN]

They often do so, good idea.

[spookie]

They often do.