Textbooks, or, the Battle of Students vs Publishers – Part II
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Apologies in advance for belaboring the point in regards to my previous post on the broken textbook industry, but another interesting article on custom textbook publishing appeared this morning in the Wall Street Journal. The article is mostly self-explanatory, so I won’t go into a lengthy discussion, but I would like to ask the reader [...]
Textbooks, or, The Battle of Students vs Publishers
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008We in the book industry should be well enough read to know the maxim: history repeats. The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting story about a new movement among students to scan textbooks into PDFs to share across P2P (peer to peer) networks. Publishers are, of course, furious. They’ve enlisted outside legal agents to [...]