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Subject: [Leica] iPad and textbooks
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:02:03 -0600 (CST)
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Why on earth would textbook publishers grant Apple the rights to make  
their books available on the ipad?


On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:31 AM, rickfloyd at comcast.net wrote:

>
>
> My kids undergraduate texts books are $500 - $600 per semester.   
> That's about $125 to $150 per book on an average.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Spencer Cheng" <spencer at aotera.org>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 10:20:21 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada  
> Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Leica] iPad and textbooks
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:41, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>> Why so many college textbooks at $50 a pop? Many colleges,  
>> including mine,
>> look for a magic number in evaluating professors for promotion.  
>> Our college
>> counts the number of papers published in academic journals as a  
>> major index.
>> Three peer reviewed papers equal one textbook. Judging from personal
>> experience it is quicker, and often easier, to write a textbook for
>> undergraduate courses than to do the research for a substantive  
>> paper.
>> Naturally the publishers want to sell co-pies of the books that  
>> they print
>> so the professors are encouraged to require all students to buy  
>> the latest
>> edition of the book. The iPad, using books accessed from the  
>> internet, will
>> kill that market. The colleges will be forced to use a different  
>> metric than
>> "Publish or perish."
>
> $50 a pop? Not even when I went to school a longtime ago. :)
>
> Engineering and computer science textbooks are more likely to be  
> $100-$200 today. I've bought a technical book for work once that  
> was about $1/page.
>
> Publish or perish still applies though. How else will they judge if  
> someone is worthy of a professorship?
>
> If I am in school today, I would happily buy anything that would  
> allow me not to carry around 5Kg of paper every day to/from class.  
> I have computer so an extension like an iPad would not be a problem.
>
> Regards,
> Spencer
>
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