Free text books getting some national press. Finally! Thanks,
David ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: McIver, Bill <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:58 AM Subject: $200 Textbook vs. Free. You Do the Math. To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Global Text Project General Group <[email protected]> July 31, 2010 $200 Textbook vs. Free. You Do the Math. By ASHLEE VANCE INFURIATING Scott G. McNealy has never been easier. Just bring up math textbooks. Mr. McNealy, the fiery co-founder and former chief executive of Sun Microsystems, shuns basic math textbooks as bloated monstrosities: their price keeps rising while the core information inside of them stays the same. “Ten plus 10 has been 20 for a long time,” Mr. McNealy says. ... [Full article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/technology/01ping.html ] William McIver, Jr, PhD (Bill) Senior Research Officer & e-Citizen Studio Manager People-Centred Technologies Group Institute for Information Technology National Research Council of Canada Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick [email protected] / +1 (506) 444-0387 [web] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Global Text Project General Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/global-text-project-general-group?hl=en. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
