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I really wouldn't mind paying for a textbook access code for every class I take, if the price was actually reasonable (unlike new textbook prices). In an ideal
by jrubinovitz 14y ago
I really wouldn't mind paying for a textbook access code for every class I take, if the price was actually reasonable (unlike new textbook prices). In an ideal world: go around the print publishers and digitally publish books with an access code at a low price with nearly all proceeds going to the author.
I have teachers that won't actually use textbooks because kids at my school cannot afford them. Professors will actually photocopy the material for us.
- joelhaasnoot 14y agoIn addition to issues such as books being "print on demand", out of print, 5 new editions every year, etc. Didn't need many textbooks for CS, but the ones I did need were a pain to get.
- vibrunazo 14y ago> I really wouldn't mind living in a world where you can have a monopoly over ideas, if I am one of the few who can afford paying for those ideas. I would. It has much further and deeper implications in the bigger picture than just that one textbook that you could afford.
- crusso 14y agoTwisting someone's words but making it appear as a quote is something I normally only see on Reddit or Fark. Could you please avoid that tactic here? Thanks.
- superuser2 14y agoThey're not trying to charge for access to the ideas. They're charging for the explanation of those ideas in text that a team of people crafted. They're charging way too much for it, but that's only because universities let them.
- crusso 14y agoExactly. The ideas are already out there. Charging for information that's out there when you have a semi-monopolistic hold on the market through the collusion of most higher institutions of education is unethical.