{"id":240,"date":"2008-08-22T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T20:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-08-22T16:37:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T20:37:56","slug":"open-source-textbooks-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2008\/08\/22\/open-source-textbooks-spreading\/","title":{"rendered":"Open source textbooks spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s LA Times reported on vigilante <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-textbook18-2008aug18,0,4712858.story\">open-source textbook publishing<\/a>. Economist R. Preston McAfee was so fed up with &#8220;idiotic books that are starting to break $200&#8221; that he turned down $100K for his textbook and decided to let it go Free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a right-wing economist, so they can&#8217;t call me a communist,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a limitation with Prof. McAfee&#8217;s approach, it&#8217;s that he seems to be doing it in a vacuum. The article mentions <a href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/\">Connexions<\/a> in an aside, which is more than just an e-publishing tool but, like eLangdell, an entire platform for exchanging teaching materials.<\/p>\n<p>More discussion of this effort on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/08\/19\/1316227\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s LA Times reported on vigilante open-source textbook publishing. Economist R. Preston McAfee was so fed up with &#8220;idiotic books that are starting to break $200&#8221; that he turned down $100K for his textbook and decided to let it go Free. &#8220;I&#8217;m a right-wing economist, so they can&#8217;t call me a communist,&#8221; he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2190],"tags":[2843,2844,2841,8875,2842],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-elangdell","tag-casebooks","tag-ebooks","tag-etexts","tag-project-elangdell","tag-textbooks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}