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Old 02-04-2011, 11:09 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Richey79 View Post
It's the four 'revised' editions the publisher spewed out with merely cosmetic changes in the intervening five years that people regard as exploiting impecunious students.
Thanks Richey. That is exactly right.

Starrigger, I was not intending to dig at for your brother's situation -- it sounds like a grueling job, and of course he deserves better.

With an increasing amount of free or low-cost courseware out there, I wonder how long the megalithic textbook publishing industry can last. . . I think e-readers, however imperfect they may currently be to the task of educational random-access reading, are just the opening salvo across the bow of that particular entrenched interest.
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