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Old 10-17-2008, 12:32 PM   #54
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I think it depends on the field you're talking about, Danny. Creating "customised" textbooks from free content may work in some fields (perhaps economics or sociology are among them - I don't know) but I can't see it working in the "hard sciences".
I think you have that backwards. I think it would work in most hard sciences (at least for basic college textbooks) but not soft sciences.

Much of the content of psychology, sociology, and economics textbooks is dependent on the professional opinion of the author. This does not apply to Physics, Math, Astronomy, or Chemistry because Newton's Law is always true, and 1+1 will always equal 2, that really bright thing in the sky is called the Sun, and hydrogen will always have one electron circling one neutron.

BTW, I just read your response re:source material. There are plenty of out of copyright textbooks available. The facts have not changed.
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