Prentice Hall To Publish Open Content Licensed Books

lma writes "Bruce Perens has convinced Prentice Hall to publish a series of books under an Open Source license. The 'Bruce Perens' Open Source Series' will be available first as hardcopy in bookstores, and the Open Source text will be available electronically a few months later. Prentice Hall is counting on people buying the books even though the electronic version will be freely available later. I like the model, since I prefer to read paper, but like the electronic version for reference."

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Novel Concept, But Not the First

[CBNobi]

Bruce Eckel's been releasing his programming books electronically for the past few years. (Not sure of its licensing, however)

This is probably one of the first cases of a publisher supporting this, however.