On OER and College Bookstores
David Wiley,
iterating toward openness,
Oct 14, 2018
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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