Open-source, downloadable textbooks could relieve price strain - Duaa Israr, DePaulia

Students and professors at DePaul University may set a new policy — usurping expensive textbook-buying requirements with the option of downloading the material at a discount price. Students and professors are now getting the survey via email. Their responses will determine whether the library will be able to grant PDF copies of textbooks that the survey respondents deem the most egregiously expensive. The library could do so using Open Educational Resources (OERs) — books that have an open domain that lets people download, share and distribute legally. http://depauliaonline.com/35951/news/open-source-downloadable-textbooks-could-relieve-price-strain/