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Stephen Downes

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Coverage of the sale of digital textbooks at the University of Oregon. Thus far, sales have been slow, partly because of the cost (though the article a bit misleadingly represents the cost as "well below the cost of a new paper text") and partly because of the DRM - the book can be copied to a computer only once and "With something this important, if my computer crashes then what do I do?" Though the article is relentlessly upbeat, you have to wonder when someone says "the success of this program was never about sales." If that's not a problem for a commercial product, I don't know what is.

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