alt Hacker News> I wrote an article in French on exploring the economics of textbooks, from the open-source point of view, a few years back
Thanks for that, it’s very informative. I contemplated publishing a book that way and never actually got that far into the planning phase. Do you think things have changed much since then?
I have not kept a very close look on what’s going on. I would say that three things have changed since:
- tablets are everywhere in the classrooms now, so the number of places where a good PDF can do good is much bigger
- there are better workflows to get a high-quality PDF than LaTeX, so much frustration can be saved, and all that can be learned easily with AI tools
- in a sea of AI slop, all the humans are desperate for a One Good Resource they can trust
Go for it!!!!