Rebus: Hugh McGuire on Riddling Out Open Textbooks - Publishing Perspectives

"McGuire, an entrepreneur long devoted to concepts of bookish networking (Pressbooks, LibriVox, iambik studio) says he’s now ready for the riddle—not only of how to bring a truly open-textbook movement into reality but also, with luck, how to make good on some of the promise of the Open Web concept, itself. He’s calling the new initiative he’s embarked on with associate Boris Anthony Reb.us. Many first learned of it when he published on Medium a revision of a talk he’d made last November in Vancouver. Titling his article Can Open Textbooks Help Save the Open Web?, McGuire writes: 'In the OpenEd movement we have the seeds of a counter-counter revolution, a movement that has the power to reclaim and strengthen a corner of the Open Web, built on the ideals of open collaboration, open information, and critically, the OpenEd movements lets us think about building new ways of interacting with information ...'"