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Everything should be free. The people writing the textbooks should spend 5 years of their life working on it for free.
by dyauspitr 5mo ago
Everything should be free. The people writing the textbooks should spend 5 years of their life working on it for free.
- coeneedell 5mo agoThey should get paid. The press should pay them. The college pays the press. The students pay the college. The press releases information for free.
- vonneumannstan 5mo agoSo you're saying colleges will just increase tuition to cover the cost of textbooks right?
- free_bip 5mo agoOr they could lay off some middle managers. If they blame the layoffs on AI the market might even reward them for it.
- vonneumannstan 5mo agoThe market will reward colleges for layoffs?
- dyauspitr 5mo agoAnd what, use the historically fabulously successful flat model?
- Eddy_Viscosity2 5mo agoThen students will just end up paying more in tuition, possibly more than the costs of textbooks. That extra money of course will go to increasing either/both the university president's or lead football coach's salaries.
- arikrahman 5mo agoThe colleges will raise tuition anyways, and they do it at a runaway cost. Might as well throw in something useful and tangible like textbooks that they can bargain wholesale with the publishers. Individually, the students can only beg.
- bradyd 5mo agoThe authors are "the press". So they somehow pay themselves?
- sixothree 5mo agoThe point of most complaints is that the author isn't the one enjoying the profit from textbooks.
- peesem 5mo agoif everything really was free then the textbook writers wouldn't need compensation since everything would be free for them too
- casey2 5mo agoIf someone spent 5 years of their life ruining Euler's arrangement of calculus concepts that we've been using for the last 250 years then they don't deserve money.