On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Ralph Morelli wrote:
HI Greg,
No I didn't know about this site. Thanks for the the link. I would
definitely consider using some of these texts in my courses. I took a quick
look at a few titles--one by Sedgewick at Princeton, another by Eck. Both
are well known authors. Sedgewick's stuff is very high quality.
I think the books are contributed by the authors not by the publishers, who
would have no incentive to do so. I'm in the process of trying to get the
copyright back from Prentice Hall for my own Java text book. My sense is
that authors generally have the right to their copyright if the publisher no
longer wishes to publish the book. In my case they published 3 editions and
are now doing nothing with it. When my co-author and I do get the
copyright, I will definitely consider adding it to this site. I was
thinking of adding it to Wiki books, but that seems to be more for
collaborative books-in-progress.
I'm going to forward this to my colleagues and students.
Thanks for the insights, Ralph.
I wonder if these folks have considered adding rating/comment
functionality to their site. Hmmmm.
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