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Re:Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks by sib on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @12:46PM (#5401983)
I had a professor who was a co-author on the textbook that we used in his class. It was the "standard" work in the field, so it would have been ridiculous to use a different one. Nonetheless, he acknowledged the potential conflict, gave us an accounting of his earnings per copy (well under a dollar per), and bought food for the class out of his own pocket. Good solution, I thought.
Re:Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks by ScottWhigham on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @01:08PM (#5402142)
I'm upvoting your comment for your professor. Please serve as proxy and go deliver the upvote to him. He sounds like "good people".
Re:Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks by abraxasz on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @03:31PM (#5403050)
Had a somewhat similar story. Took a class whose instructor had written the reference book in the field. We used his textbook, but instead of having us buy it, he gave out free photocopies of the preprint for the yet-to-be released newest edition.
Re:Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks by koenigdavidmj on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @07:50PM (#5404496)
Tadayoshi Kohno at UW?