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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
One of the familiar laments of BlogScholar emerges again in the New York Times:
“This market is not working very well — except for the shareholders in
the textbook publishers,” said R. Preston McAfee, an economics professor at Cal Tech. “We have lots of knowledge, but we
are not getting it out.”
McAfee accuses academic publishers of dumbing down textbook content to reach the widest possible audience at intolerably high prices. So he took the option of publishing his new economics textbook for free on the Web in Word or PDF while offering selected booksellers the right to sell hard copies at a siginificant discount.
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