Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @01:41AM from the pirg-nonethless-annoying dept.

bcrowell writes "The LA Times has a front-page article about how open-source college textbooks are starting to gain traction. One author says, 'I couldn't continue assigning idiotic books that are starting to break $200,' and describes attempts by commercial publishers to bribe faculty to use their books. The Cal State system has started a Digital Marketplace to help faculty find out about their options for free and non-free digital textbooks, and the student group PIRG has collected 1200 faculty signatures on a statement of support for open textbooks."

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Pfft.. by Thelasko · 2008-08-19 01:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I posted a better article from Time Magazine a few weeks back.

Of course, it was rejected...

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slashdot is broken by joss · 2008-08-19 02:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I cannot get to slashdot from firefox due to some fucking starwars ad, was able to access it using a windows vmware installation with IE. Great, just great guys, slashdot only useable under windows for me right now, congratulations. Anyone else experiencing this ?

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