I stumbled across a notice for opensource textbooks being promoted at the US senate level. <br><br>I LIKE THIS!!!<br><br><a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714">http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714</a><br>
<br>I found the link from here: <a href="http://opensource.com/education/09/12/open-textbook-bill">http://opensource.com/education/09/12/open-textbook-bill</a><br><br>As someone with a college student (OK - _2_ college students with the spouse in grad school) I like the idea of making the big classes books freely available. There is no need to purchase a math book (whose basic content hasn't changed in 20 years) just to have it get superseded by an "updated edition" that kills the used book resell price. Ditto on freshman english, history, chemistry, physics, etc. Or the underhanded process used by one school (which remain nameless as it's on Indian Creek Dr and part of the University System of Georgia as a 2-year school) to block students from getting their books from alternate sources by not having the book-to-class data available until the day before classes begin (when the data has been set in stone at least 3 months prior) which blocks students from buying used books from ebay and amazon, etc. at less than half the price of the school bookstore.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br><br>