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Re:DRM Broke Its Promise by jacobreg on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @06:26PM (#20882012)
On the other hand I had a professor who wrote a book just to teach this particular course, and sold it for $5. It was a great text and a great course.
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Re:DRM Broke Its Promise by bb88 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @02:27AM (#20884331)
He probably made money on it (even if it was $100). I've heard of profs writing books explicitly for their classes and not making money on them.
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Re:DRM Broke Its Promise by rusticpenn on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:37AM (#20886513)
The money required to print it probably...
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Re:DRM Broke Its Promise by yummypaint on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:45PM (#20897842)
All the prof-authored material ive seen has always been provided as a free pdf before the course started. There is really no excuse for not doing this in 2019.
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