The battle over digital copies of textbooks is just heating up. "College students may be the angriest group of captive customers to be found anywhere. Consider the cost of a legitimate copy of one of the textbooks listed at the Pirate Bay, John McMurry's 'Organic Chemistry.' A new copy has a list price of $209.95; discounted." Moreover, "Used book sales return nothing to publishers and authors. Digital publishing, however, offers textbook publishers a way to effectively destroy the secondary market for textbooks." Where the textbook conflict diverges from music downloads is that, in learning, students access a learning management system (LMS). I have no doubt that at least some LMS vendors are thinking of ways to enforce textbook purchases.
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