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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by WoodenChair on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @12:06PM (#14194827)
> It really astounded me that we had to pay a third-party for-profit company to get access to our homework.

Isn't a publisher a third-party for-profit company? If you need to buy a book for a class to read and do homework in order to pass the class, that's okay right? So, why is it wrong to expect someone to do the same thing digitally?

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by darkengine on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @12:15PM (#14194935)
Books can be shared in study groups, lent between students, checked out from a campus library, bought and sold between terms, and photocopied. Much the same could be done for a DRM-free PDF.

The only way to complete MyMathLab homework is to pay out for a poorly-written Flash app.

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by ljk on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:27PM (#14195931)
textbooks don't disappear after one semester
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