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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Textbooks are expensive.
But electronic textbooks aren't the answer. The answer may be Wikibooks. But the answer definitely includes ending the habit professors have, of assigning their own published textbooks as an extra source of income.
And Wikibooks tend to be digital, so they don't weigh a lot.  Win-win. 
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Nothing is going to eliminate the other reason for assigning their own published books...the fact that they agree with every word the author wrote