Professors Put Textbooks Online to Reduce Costs

From the Chronicle's "Wired Campus" blog

July 6, 2012, 12:31 pm

By Angela Chen

The rising cost of textbooks—along with the rise of easy-to-use publishing tools online—has helped drive the popularity of open-source materials and professors’ taking a do-it-yourself approach to textbook publishing. Here are three professors who wrote their own textbooks and are distributing them free.

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