Free e-text books at Ohio State: Open source textbooks next?

February 26, 2005 | 4:36 am

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Some professors at Ohio State are offering their own e-textbooks and other online material for free–saving their students big bucks. A lesson for the publishing industry if it can’t control prices? What’s next? Could open source textbooks suck many millions out of the business, especially as e-book technology improves ? Many in academia might see that as A Good Thing. (The Oklahoma Daily, via eBookAd.)

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