Terry Anderson poses the question in the title by means of an example from David Wiley: "the cost of renting 75,000 movies ($9.00 a month from NetFlicks) or renting any of 20 million songs from Spotify ($9.99/month) with the cost of renting a college text book . A single biology text book rents for $12.99 a month from BookRenter." Thus, he writes, "the time is right for a 'market correction' that exploits the affordances of the Net to create drastically lower cost of quality higher education experience." It's long past due.
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