Pressbooks sustainability question
Jul 31, 2022
Here's another object lesson in being careful when you choose your technology provoder. Justina writes, "At my university, we do not have an enterprise license for Pressbooks, but we did purchase about 20 "Individual Faculty" licenses a few years ago. These were advertised at the time as perpetual; that is, $99 for life. Well, apparently that life is ending on 9/29/22. Our faculty are faced with three choices: 1) opt in to the new platform for $500/year, 2) move their e-book to a different platform, or 3) let it be deleted on 9/29/22." Ouch. But fortunately, PressBooks is open source, and the books can be transferred to another location. If PressBooks weren't open source, the university would be stuck.
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