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How about making money from textbooks? I don't mean exploit-the-students kind of money, but still make money none the less. The teacher could sell the lecture
by ivan_ah 14y ago
How about making money from textbooks?
I don't mean exploit-the-students kind of money, but still make money none the less. The teacher could sell the lecture notes++ as a printed book for 5$ per 100 pages.
A small textbook could cost 15$.
Imagine yourself taking the course -- I mean //really// taking it: spending lots of time watching the lectures, doing the exercises and trying to get into the subject.
If you want to print out the lecture notes and slides for the course (think SELECT .pdf FROM /course/name | print | bind) it would cost you about 300 pages 5c/page = $15 to get this printed at a local copy shop + $5 for spiral binding.
For the same price, you get a perfect-bound soft-cover textbook delivered to your front door (an extra $5 for S/H).
I am telling you guys, this P-o-D stuff is crazy!
- prostoalex 14y agoIt mentions they're already making some money from the Amazon affiliate links to textbooks. For a lot of courses the material is not confined to one single textbook, but supplemented with other books, video materials and papers one has to get online.
- mjmahone17 14y agoI would pay for access to course notes that have guarunteed permanence. Because if I ever want to look up an algorithm I learned, and I remember "oh, I remember that from that one class," I typically look back through my course notes. It'd be awesome to have those notes permanently, without my having to write them up. I know for my school's intro sequence, we post the notes online, but each year the notes change a little, and, if the course is in progress, or just about to start, then only the notes for the course up to the point it's at are available.