I only have a passing affiliation with this, but the Global Text Project (http://www.globaltext.org) is aiming to use what amounts to advanced Wiki technology to provide 100% free textbooks in multiple languages. Time will tell how well it turns out, but minimally it is a good start to relieve the burden of textbook costs on students. It is also not the only source for free textbooks or the only project hoping to create and provide them (though it is a good model since it addresses much of the incentive problem associated with their creation). Take a look and tell your professors to look as well, either to contribute or to adopt when the library becomes more mature. (to keep this post somewhat on topic, getting the books into a form readable by an ebook reader requires little more than a custom CSS page, so someone here could certainly volunteer to donate such...)
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Paul @ Oct 3rd 2007 6:33PM
I only have a passing affiliation with this, but the Global Text Project (http://www.globaltext.org) is aiming to use what amounts to advanced Wiki technology to provide 100% free textbooks in multiple languages. Time will tell how well it turns out, but minimally it is a good start to relieve the burden of textbook costs on students. It is also not the only source for free textbooks or the only project hoping to create and provide them (though it is a good model since it addresses much of the incentive problem associated with their creation). Take a look and tell your professors to look as well, either to contribute or to adopt when the library becomes more mature. (to keep this post somewhat on topic, getting the books into a form readable by an ebook reader requires little more than a custom CSS page, so someone here could certainly volunteer to donate such...)