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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Stealing Books Lowers Student Loans
College students have been illegally downloading textbooks which have been scanned and put on torrent sites and the publishers are starting to fight back. An interesting article on this can be viewed here.
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
How depressing. Similar to the music industry, it costs relatively next to nothing to make these books, yet the authors rarely see decent royalties for their writings. All the money goes to the publishing company. Good thing most writers of college textbooks are accomplished, working professors. If it weren't for this, I guess I'd feel like textbook torrent was doing some huge injustice...but they aren't. Textbooks (education!) ought to be free, but there's no such thing as free.
What's sad is that many students get lazy and buy new instead of searching for used books online (if used copies are sold out in their bookstore), which will not only save them money, but helps save paper. I use half.com and amazon.com to buy and sell books, but there are other ways, like scoping out books or listing your books in the Facebook Marketplace.
There are also some great organizations that accept donated textbooks to go to schools worldwide where the students or administrations cannot afford books for the classroom. Check out this page, which lists some organizations: http://nationalserviceresources.org/node/17645
1 comment:
How depressing. Similar to the music industry, it costs relatively next to nothing to make these books, yet the authors rarely see decent royalties for their writings. All the money goes to the publishing company. Good thing most writers of college textbooks are accomplished, working professors. If it weren't for this, I guess I'd feel like textbook torrent was doing some huge injustice...but they aren't. Textbooks (education!) ought to be free, but there's no such thing as free.
What's sad is that many students get lazy and buy new instead of searching for used books online (if used copies are sold out in their bookstore), which will not only save them money, but helps save paper. I use half.com and amazon.com to buy and sell books, but there are other ways, like scoping out books or listing your books in the Facebook Marketplace.
There are also some great organizations that accept donated textbooks to go to schools worldwide where the students or administrations cannot afford books for the classroom. Check out this page, which lists some organizations:
http://nationalserviceresources.org/node/17645
I am way off topic.
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