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Originally Posted by starrigger
That's the mythology, all right. A shame it isn't true. Or certainly isn't universally true. My brother is the coauthor of a college psychology text. Every four or five years he works his butt off rewriting, reshaping, revamping his textbook according to what the publisher wants, what the teaching needs seem to be, and what the latest research shows. He would not take your characterization kindly at all.
On the e-side of the question, he reports his publisher (a major textbook publisher) to have no visible plan whatsoever for embracing e-publishing. He's not an ebook guy himself, so he doesn't worry about that very much. I keep suggesting that he, and they, ought to give it some thought.
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wow, thought you were made of sterner stuff than to whine about this fact of life in college. What your single individual brother does has zero relevance to what every one of us who has attended more than the first week of college has experienced. Incremental updated editions of textbooks which offer zero substantial added information than the previous editions.
If you want to rail against anyone, rail against the publisher of the books which diminish your brother's hard work to actually provide new and improved editions. Those are always good for students, theoretically anyway as it's ultimately comes down to the prof not the book.
But come-on man, you have more than this in ya!
