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Stephen Downes

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The people at Slashdot are all over this, of course, as Prentice Hall will publish a series of books under an open source license. "How do we make money? People like paper. We put the paper versions in stores several months before the electronic versions come out. Since the retail channel is filled as soon as the paper versions come out, it removes most of the incentive that a second publisher would have to reprint the books while they are new." I think this is a good idea. I wonder whether they need a book on logical fallacies...

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