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vonneumannstantoday at 5:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Perhaps you fail to see how this would probably lead to textbooks costing even more and which will be directly passed to students as higher tuition?


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michaelmrosetoday at 5:52 PM

You are assuming that the actual cost of a textbook on math which hasn't changed in centuries is hundreds of dollars per student per class when in actuality without the profit incentive a 100M could use the same ebook over a decade wherein the unit cost is almost too low to measured even if pay excellent folks to produce a new work.