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by JimEngland 4901 days ago
I am really excited to see what companies like Boundless (http://boundless.com) do to disrupt the college textbook market.

Boundless is taking OER resources and syncing it up to the chapters in existing textbooks, so a student can enter the textbook for the course and get a customized online replacement.
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mediocregopher 4901 days ago
As a college kid who refuses to pay for textbooks: Thanks!

When you go to the site it already knows what school you go to (or at least it did for me). There's more then one school in my town, so I don't know if they just do geo-location and go with the larger school, or if they have some other source (I don't see how or what though). On one hand very cool, on the other a little worrying.

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JimEngland 4901 days ago
They probably have mapped a list of IP address blocks to universities. Pretty clever :)
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