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Originally Posted by nekokami
I'd expected more imagination from you, Dennis.  Anything can exist outside of a capitalistic framework. Certainly textbook publishing could. It already does. See http://www.wikibooks.org/ for just one example. |
In Sweden people do not get paid to write a text books usually. Or the money they get is very small compared to the effort. Text books are usually written as part of a persons academic employment and is usually a development of course material that have been used in courses many years. The motivation to write text books is partly to get academic credits. It is nearly never the case that you get properly compensated for the time and effort in terms of money. So I am surprised that people here claim that text book writers have to be compensated by selling the text book.