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I spent the last 4 years at university and digital textbooks are almost never prescribed because students like hard copies. Your argument that educational esta
by lebek 13y ago
I spent the last 4 years at university and digital textbooks are almost never prescribed because students like hard copies. Your argument that educational establishments don't stand to benefit much financially from traditional textbooks is probably true, but not really the issue.
- pserwylo 13y agoYou are absolutely correct. I guess the answer would be that if such books were, e.g. CC licensed, then hard copies would be able to be printed. Given the prevailence of self publishing firms available, one would hope there is a market for text book publishers who compete on the printing price alone. Such companies needn't even be publishers themselves, but rather a middleman which makes use of self publishing services.