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Ray Corrigan - B2fxxx: Don't buy, download textbooks

Tue, 2008/09/16 - 13:06 — Keren

From the NYT: Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free

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Ray Corrigan - B2fxxx: Textbook prices and a public spirited professor

Tue, 2008/09/02 - 16:05 — Keren

According to David Bollier, CalTech professor R. Preston McAfee turned down a massive advance fee from a big publisher to publish one of his economics texts in favour of releasing it freely under a creative commons licence.

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