Taming the Textbook Market
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"Every college or university that makes use of open access textbooks could pay into an institutional fund using monies collected from students as part of their tuition or as a textbook fee. The advantage is that each student could pay $50 per semester to the fund and in return gets all of his or her textbooks at no cost in digital format (with a print-on-demand for fee option)...."