Textbooks Ripe for Pirates – Overpriced and Under-supplied
TechDirt has a little look at the growing fight between textbook publishers and the students who are tired of paying thousands of dollars a semester and are instead finding more and more pirated scans online:
“…rather than responding to the root cause of the downloads, textbook publishers are trying to come up with systems that students can’t get around paying for, such as online subscriptions to “extra” information to go along with a textbook.”
Doesn’t anyone want to learn anything from the failings of the music industry? The only way the textbook companies will beat the pirates is to offer their books for a fair price in a format that is open and friendly to the students.
Yeah, I don’t see that happening anytime soon, either. So, expect to see plenty of new textbooks coming to a pirate site near you. Supply and demand, people. Supply and demand.
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July 29, 2008 9:52 pm
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