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Originally Posted by fjtorres
There is a trend towards universities moving to digital textbooks and bundling the textbooks into the tuition. If it continues, it will turn the college textbook business, like the K-12 market, into an institutional volume purchase business where the institution gets deep discounts on volume and the publishers get to kill the used textbook business.
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Which is why k-12 schools, districts, and states need to start making open curriculum and textbooks. Pretty soon, they be paying through the nose for digital books but won't be able to afford teachers.
It costs about $2M per subject/grade to make curriculum and textbooks. If we start now, we could save tons and hire more teachers. Starting at kindergarten wouldn't be horribly hard.