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Steven Lyle Jordan · 08-14-2008, 09:10 AM

I'm going to suggest it again, and let the chips fall where they may: Replacing student revenue with advertising or patronage revenue might be the answer.

It is probably not a good idea to simply allow ad money to select which books are used, so it would likely be an involved process of:

Previewing texts by teachers,
Selecting texts to use,
THEN selling ad/patron/grant space for revenue.

Strict rules of the type and format of ads would also have to be applied.

Go ahead and say it: No one likes ads.

But who likes paying $500 a year for textbooks?

08-14-2008, 09:10 AM	#10
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	I'm going to suggest it again, and let the chips fall where they may: Replacing student revenue with advertising or patronage revenue might be the answer. It is probably not a good idea to simply allow ad money to select which books are used, so it would likely be an involved process of: Previewing texts by teachers, Selecting texts to use, THEN selling ad/patron/grant space for revenue. Strict rules of the type and format of ads would also have to be applied. Go ahead and say it: No one likes ads. But who likes paying $500 a year for textbooks?