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So what do the textbook publishers do about this? "Mr. Basham, a professor of information technology and IT security at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Fla., wrote his own 800-page Cisco networking textbook and last week made it available for download over the Internet free of charge. More than 2,000 copies were downloaded around the world in the first few days of the book's on-line release, according to Lulu.com, an alternative textbook publisher that agreed to distribute it."

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