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Sound brilliant with one small question "So, in addition to making the digital textbooks available to students free of cost, the legislation requires that print
by Zenst 14y ago
Sound brilliant with one small question "So, in addition to making the digital textbooks available to students free of cost, the legislation requires that print copies of textbooks will cost about $20. ". Small question about biasing for those students who have access to a device that can read the free open source version, for many a hardcopy is also more suitable. So to legaly control a price saying "about $20" does somewhat raise questions as to the definition of "about" as a fiscal term and more so. Who do you pay to print out your own copy? Becasue as it reads, if you print it out then you should be paying "about $20" for it and this is completely unclear.
Least to me it is.
Still motives are good and anything moving in the right common sence direction has to be applauded.
- nathan_long 14y agoYeah, the $20-to-print requirement will get tricky. Imagine a biology textbook with detailed color pictures. Do you have to remove some because color printing is expensive? Is it acceptable if you can print a text-only version of the book for $20 and look at the pictures online? Is it acceptable to sell a supplementary illustrations book? The real win here is for students to be able to download the whole book for free. In principle, your entire textbook budget for college could be the price of an e-book reader.