{"id":243,"date":"2008-09-15T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-09-15T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T17:12:56","slug":"professor-sacrifices-royalties-to-protest-high-textbook-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2008\/09\/15\/professor-sacrifices-royalties-to-protest-high-textbook-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor sacrifices royalties to protest high textbook costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another article about Professor R. Preston McAfee, an economics professor at Cal Tech, in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/15\/technology\/15link.html\">New York Times<\/a>. McAfee is giving away his economics textbook and letting students download it as a PDF or get it micro-printed from Lulu or Flat World Knowledge. He also scoffs at the idea that textbooks can ever be fully crowdsourced: \u201cOf all the things that are changing, one thing is consistent \u2014 the authorship model. What doesn\u2019t worry me is that leading experts will say I will write my own damn book and people will read it.\u201d Which is pretty much how we see it at eLangdell.<\/p>\n<p>update: Interestingly, this article has hit the top-10 most emailed on the Times, on a day when politics and economics otherwise reign supreme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another article about Professor R. Preston McAfee, an economics professor at Cal Tech, in today&#8217;s New York Times. McAfee is giving away his economics textbook and letting students download it as a PDF or get it micro-printed from Lulu or Flat World Knowledge. He also scoffs at the idea that textbooks can ever be fully [&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":[3044,618,2842],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-elangdell","tag-elangdell","tag-open-access","tag-textbooks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}