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$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)Posted Feb 3, 2006 9:49 UTC (Fri) by OldRabbit (guest, #30886)In reply to: $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet) by sbergman27 Parent article: $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)
>Now maybe the target audience doesn't have easy access to text books. But if they have laptops they can... what? Are publishers going to just start giving away PDF's?
At the moment, text books are generally written as a labour of love by academics, who receive little more than their expenses in return. Nearly all of the cover price goes to the publisher.
What is needed is an initiative to encourage text book authors to instead publish electronically, in an open format such as OpenDocument, and place the work online under a suitable free licence.
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