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its amusing how harvard stanford and princeton with endowments of like forty quadrillion dollars shake and quiver in the face of a thirty person publishing firm
by cypress-hill 18y ago
its amusing how harvard stanford and princeton with endowments of like forty quadrillion dollars shake and quiver in the face of a thirty person publishing firm.
the big schools could trivially "nationalize" textbooks with online material. it would be cheaper just to buy a new laptops for students who don't have the means to access the data
- gaius 18y agoIs this not what MIT are doing with OCW?
- pm 18y agoSimilar, but it's not quite the whole picture. I've downloaded the materials from a wide range of classes, and the quantity of material and subsequent potential for greater understanding varied greatly. Lecture notes are no replacement for a well-written textbook, especially if you're an autodidact attempting to further your horizons.