Jill Laster at The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that North Carolina University is paying a site license for an online physics book (with traditional copyright). The article does note that it also hopes to offer a textbook written by the department head online as well. No word on licensing. North Carolina’s model is interesting in that it eliminates the student burden argument, but does not offer the ability to remix. From the post:
North Carolina State University Libraries paid about $1,500 to purchase the site license for the textbook, published by Physics Curriculum & Instruction. Greg Raschke, who managed the physics project for the libraries, said the libraries would like to make more textbooks available online for students.
Bravo North Carolina University.
Knowledge is for SHARE . Anything ONLINE is easy to SHARE.
I advocate all books should be shared at only $ 5 per book any book what so ever.
Believe me good authors will make more money . Bad ones no. Publishers no also . Some smart publishers go online . They save forests, they save the money of poor students.
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