Comments on: Anti-Piracy Patent Stops Students From Sharing Textbooks

By: JohnGustavsson

JohnGustavsson — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:08:00 +0000

Imagine if this patent was donated to the Pirate Party and they would use it to block usage. If a university or publisher would use the code system, they would get sued by the Pirate Party.

By: Ron Rieger

Ron Rieger — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:31:00 +0000

This patent isn’t about textbooks at all. It is about instructors forcing students to pay for an online forum where they are getting a kickback. An instructor’s job is to teach, not to sell books, or online access, or candy bars for a higher grade. Used copies of a book do not violate copyright law. Students who share their legitimate copies of a book are not violating copyright law. Public libraries that loan legitimate copies of books are not violating copyright law. The value of an online forum may be beneficial in some respects, but there are numerous options for that. Many of which are free.

By: nz-cs-lecturer

nz-cs-lecturer — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:42:00 +0000

In a course I’m teaching we dropped our textbook because the author kept revising it so often. We switched to a book that’s stood the test of time pretty well without
changes. For 4th year papers students are not required to buy any books at all;
if they can’t pick up what they need from our handouts and the papers we point them
to — the university having e-subscriptions to lots of journals they can legitimately
use — we reckon we’ve designed the course wrong. As for making a profit with a
book, providing an e-book through Lulu.com or an iBook through Apple is really
much easier than publishing a book normally and the students can buy such books
cheaply, cheaper than photocopying. And the author gets a much bigger share of
the profits! So the economics professor is probably cheating himself most of all: if he e-published he textbook the students could buy it cheaply and he’d get most of their
money.

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By: Callithrix

Callithrix — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:10:00 +0000

Why they are obsolete? As a university professor I always encouraged my students to buy the textbooks, which are 1 or 2 editions back. In terms of money, they cost $3-5 instead of $120.

By: minorsquabbles

minorsquabbles — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:40:00 +0000

When I was a university I was dreaming.

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By: The Thinker 2.6

The Thinker 2.6 — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:37:00 +0000

So In Short, Everyone who goes to college who is poor and on a GrantScholarship or is just literally buried in Student Loans has to buy 100$’s of Dollars worth of Books for code usable for maybe 1 Semester to Get an A, so that they can get a good job and have an Acceptable Future? Total Bullshit. When i say This guy needs to be shot, Raise Lee Harvey Oswald from the dead and have him do it. God damned dick acts if he was a damned Wall Street ReP. Hey Hello budy!, were all not rolling in cash like Donald Trump, or The Hiltons. I mean seriously that eans grades would drop, Unemployment would raise even more, College will become less used. Essentially Its a good plan if you look at it but if you break it down detail, to detail, consequence to consequence. Its a total cluster fuck ass shit for The college [ Lower Enrollment rates, etc] The Students [ Grades would suffer = Lower Employment Rates] and overall Employment rates as is. As people would rather be employ having lots of $$$ and buying a freaking 150$ Txbook and several of them aswell. Rather than someone who probally did better than them in actually Work but suffered a grade loss due to not being able to participate in a Online Panel about the Semester or ETC. Meaning you r Totally Bum-screwed out the arse. Seriouslys That professor should go rethink his life, and someone should look into how be even became a college professor!

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By: Jaicear

Jaicear — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 02:41:00 +0000

well, lets put it this way, there will always be a university that will allow students to have access to resources for them to learn, that will be a differentiation for that university, lets get real, does really this person believed that a printed book (his book) is going to be relevant for more than 6 weeks? is he going to be competing with the Internet and the tons and tons of information a student can find (for free) within seconds by just googling around? for sure he is one of those old ugly persons that have defined a plan to teach something that he believes he knows, but really, do we want someone that is more worried about not loosing any revenue generated by the pages he wrote ages ago, than for really providing education to the students, being even part of an education structure or institution? that is the big problem , universities are not dedicated to educate any more, they are dedicated to make money, even at students expenses… to sad, but true… look at this if you really want to know more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U