BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!<br><br>Did you hear about the comedian who majored in mental health....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">There’s a comedian who talks about taking
finance as a major in college. He said it basically taught him to buy low and
sell high. He follows up by saying the book he used for the course cost him
$100 and the campus bookstore bought it back for $3. </span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 27, 2010
1:09 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Atlanta
Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ale] open source
textbook bill</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I stumbled across a
notice for opensource textbooks being promoted at the US senate
level. <br>
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I LIKE THIS!!!<br>
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<a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714" target="_blank">http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714</a><br>
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I found the link from here: <a href="http://opensource.com/education/09/12/open-textbook-bill" target="_blank">http://opensource.com/education/09/12/open-textbook-bill</a><br>
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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20 years) just to have it get superseded by an "updated edition" that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">
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James P. Kinney III<br>
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