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Originally Posted by wodin
In my college days, which admittedly were a very long time ago, professors would frequently supplement their income by authoring and publishing a small run textbook and assigning it to their class. Their clientele usually was limited to their own students, so they might sell a maximum of a few hundred books over a several year run; but when the used book market caught up, that well would run dry. Selling and trading used textbooks was a thriving business in college towns across the country.
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See, I find that practice morally repugnant. If you want to teach a subject matter in your own special flower way with your own notes, great! Take it down to the university printing shop, you know where everyone gets their thesis papers and poster printed, and make some copies.
DON'T publish an entire book just to supplement your income. Go get a consulting job or something with the cachet the Ph.D. gives you.
This is about educating young people. Not fleecing them to line your own pockets.