Karen Fasimpaur has a new post on the discussion surrounding digital textbooks in Texas. Though the current legislation indicates that the digital textbooks would be owned by the state, it is unclear whether or it will be openly licensed or not. From the post:
Recently, Texas State Representative Scott Hochberg, who was a leader on the “open source textbook” legislation* there, was quoted as saying “We were due to spend about $225 million to replace the grades six through 12 literature books in the state. We can buy the content for under $20 million. Someplace between $20 million and $225 million, there’s a cost savings.”
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