[ale] open source textbook bill

[Jim Kinney]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Did you hear about the comedian who majored in mental health....

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

>   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.
>
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:09 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> *Subject:* [ale] open source textbook bill
>
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>
> I stumbled across a notice for opensource textbooks being promoted at the
> US senate level.
>
> I LIKE THIS!!!
>
> http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714
>
> I found the link from here:
> http://opensource.com/education/09/12/open-textbook-bill
>
> 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 content hasn't changed in 20 years) just to have it get superseded by an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.
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