tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post1413758286182660819..comments2023-11-02T09:44:15.693-04:00Comments on The Center for College Affordability and Productivity: Textbooks 101Center for College Affordability and Productivityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041956958538598371noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-67755488591317278152007-04-15T16:33:00.000-04:002007-04-15T16:33:00.000-04:00Check out this story over at Casting Out NinesHidd...Check out this story over at Casting Out Nines<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.castingoutnines.net/2007/04/09/hidden-alternatives-to-textbooks/" REL="nofollow">Hidden alternatives to textbooks</A><BR/><BR/>"just had a chat with my colleague who will be teaching Discrete Structures this fall without a textbook. He had just gotten off the phone with the textbook rep from the publisher of the textbook he used the last time he taught the class. My colleague told the rep that he wasn’t going to use the book because, at $140 a copy, it was just too expensive, and he felt he could put together his own materials or put books on reserve in the library and be just as effective.<BR/><BR/>The rep countered by informing him about a web-based version of the text, which contains not only the complete contents of the text in electronic form but also some extras like additional worked-out examples. Students purchase an access code for this web site that is good for two years (in case they need to repeat the course); they pay by credit card and bypass the campus bookstore; and like I said, they get the entire contents of the textbook plus additional stuff. The cost for this? $15."TurbineGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09781298806992944235noreply@blogger.com