Interesting idea…
Link: Wikibooks takes on textbook industry.
if Jimmy Wales and his colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation have anything to say about it, you could have another way to go–the Wikibooks project. It’s their attempt to create a comprehensive, kindergarten-to-college curriculum of textbooks that are free and freely distributable, based on an open-source development model.
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This looks like an interesting project– we were discussing this today as a possible way to get textbooks to some of our rural distance ed students without having to incur sizeable shipping fees on top of book costs.