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Fewer textbooks to carry with Kindle?

The ARS Technica website has a report that Amazon may enter the college textbook market with a new version of its Kindle electronic reading device. Provided enough college texts could be produced in a Kindle-friendly format, it would appear that...

Open-source textbooks

In response to rising textbook prices, some academics are writing their own textbooks — for free. From an article in the Los Angeles Times: Caltech economics professor R. Preston McAfee finds it annoying that students and faculty haven’t looked harder...

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