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Originally Posted by Danny Fekete
"Negotiation" as I meant it may take the form of piracy or shared purchasing and photocopying. Anything that impacts the decisions this sort of publisher makes is part of that broad sense of negotiation. The metaphor could be extended to imagine potential buyers as a union (where they get organised, as Geekman had hoped, I suspect), collectively bargaining against the price of textbooks. Again, though, I think this is becoming moot with open education publishing ascendant.
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It may be. One interesting trend is universities make class material effectively "open source", freely available for download by anyone.
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They can be $22 for a hard-bound engineering textbook with no warehousing costs. I'd pay shipping. That's still cheap enough for me.
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They can? Where do you get your numbers on what it costs to produce that hardbound engineering text hat would make it possible to sell it at that price?
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Dennis