E-textbooks

Susan D'Agostino reports that unilateral changes by the publisher of a library e-book collection left some students without textbooks .

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Pirated Textbooks

Grace Elletson writes about pirate libraries of scanned textbooks. These online libraries are primarily located in Eastern Europe, and are costing publishers hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Book Discussion Replacing a Single Textbook

Instructor Ed Cunliff tells of replacing his course textbook with a reading list . He has students summarize their readings, and then the class discusses the concepts.

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Open Education Resources

Beth McMurtrie shares concerns about free learning resources which are replacing textbooks in many schools.

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Open Access Textbooks

Beth McMurtrie reports on the quality concerns professors have about open access textbooks.

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Open Education Resources and Social Justice

Robin DeRosa suggests that the use of Open Education Resources may be a social justice issue.

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Rice University Is Developing Open Textbooks

Rice University is developing a collection of open textbooks , e-books developed by a University subsiderary which can be used without charge.

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