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Originally Posted by webroot
These are interesting links but I wonder if all book become opentextbook, then writing profession will be out of business.
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Nobody in those (and other like links) is talking about fiction or commercial non-fiction. So pretending open source textbooks have anything to do with commercial authors incomes is a non-sequitur.
The target of all those efforts are publicly-funded educational resources developed at public expense for common use in higher education.
There is no law of nature that says university textbooks have to be $200 per book cash cows for the likes of Pearson, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, etc. Not when many if not most of the texts are decades old and only minimally tweaked every year or two, mostly to undercut the used textbook market.
Ebook technology allows the universities to combine their efforts and produce superior texts for students and allow them to divert the money going to the predatory publishers to go towards the eternally rising tuitions.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102746071