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Re:OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks by waterhouse on Monday August 13, 2018 @02:29PM (#17752397)
There is something called Wikibooks, though I've only spent maybe half an hour reading a particular wikibook years ago and can't speak to overall quality:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Re:OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks by nickpsecurity on Monday August 13, 2018 @03:28PM (#17752873)
Yeah but I wasnt impressed with the quality when I looked at them. Im talking about paying good writers and illustrators to do stuff students would actually want to buy. Then, price it affordably. Maybe even tiered with a default price plus discounts for smaller institutions.