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Originally Posted by kjk
Putting the same old textbooks controlled by the same people who produce the same old textbooks onto eBooks won't change anything. The potential for eBooks is to escape that model, and giving access to a much wider (and less censored/controlled) range of study materials.
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Possibly. But as a professor I can tell you I wouldn't be very likely to spend the time exploring that stuff to find no materials to use vs. just sticking with the old books I've been using and have my lectures etc. based around.
Maybe I'd look into it a bit for new courses I hadn't prepped yet. But I wouldn't go back and do that level of re-prepping for old courses and waste valuable time that could go into my research work.
So I still don't see it having much of an impact. Professors are still going to pick among the books that come across their desk from publishers who are more aggressive in promoting their text books for adoption.
The only difference will be with e-books it will be easier for them to get complimentary copies to professors to consider for adoption.