There is also this effort, among others, for university textbooks:
http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
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Open Textbook Library
As an instructor, you want your students to have the best textbooks possible. Unfortunately, not all students can afford the high cost of traditional textbooks.
You can change that!
You can ensure that ALL of your students will have access to your course textbook content. In addition, you can edit the textbooks to fit your courses and best meet the needs of your students.
Open textbooks are real, complete textbooks licensed so teachers and students can freely use, adapt, and distribute the material. Open textbooks can be downloaded for no cost, or printed inexpensively.
This library is a tool to help instructors find affordable, quality textbook solutions. All textbooks in this library are complete and openly licensed.
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Six very reputable universities are partnered in it.
This one if from RICE UNIVERSITY:
https://openstaxcollege.org/books
This one links to a whole bunch of repositories:
http://open.bccampus.ca/open-textboo...pen-textbooks/
These sites aren't just for academics. Anybody with an interest in non-fiction can tap into them.
Combine them with the free online classes you can tap into (many with certificates of completion) and the internet becomes a free university for those with the desire to learn.
http://open.bccampus.ca/open-textboo...pen-textbooks/
If there's a will, there already are ways...