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Stephen Downes

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Once concern about open educational resources (OER) is that they might cost the college bookstore its traditional revenue base. But as David Wiley points out, only a small percentage of the cost of a textbook is returned to the bookstore. And this could be made up with, say, print-on-demand service. I would add that this would work for both commercial and non-commercial OER. As Creative Commons recently stated, a school should be able to hire a contractor to reproduce copies of an openly licensed non-commercial work. Here's an example from Kwantlen.

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