The Textbook Scam: How a $14 Billion Industry Robs Students and Professors - The Spectrum

"Open textbooks are one solution to the overpriced textbook problem. An open textbook is a textbook with no copyright. These books are flexible in a way that traditional textbooks are not. Open textbooks allow instructors to take pieces from different titles and mix them all together. Another positive is that any title can be used indefinitely, so editions only need to be changed when the instructor wants to, not when a textbook executive wants to put new tires on their car. One fine professor in electrical engineering does this now and it works well for him."