Interesting: digital rental of text books at amazon:
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=16101
Others have done this sort of thing but this is pretty big-time. And I
notice that this is not only for the kindle device, but also for your
computer, phone, ipad via their kindle apps,
Hmmm... strikes me as another attempt to extract rents from an already
monopolistic market (you must use textbook X for this course and you will
pay Y). 80% off list price for a 30 day rental? So if I want it for a year,
that's about 240% of list price? Nice business model.
—R
On Tue, Jul
OReilly's Safari likely would be better: a fixed price ($22/mo for standard)
for a fixed number of books (10 for standard) that can change over time.
OReilly has been bring in other publishers, so may include textbooks
eventually. Still, as you point out, its not cheap .. $200/year .. but
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In a thread early last month I was doing my thing of stirring the pot
by making noise about the equivalence of 'information' and 'uncertainty'
- and I was quoting Shannon to back me up.
We all know that the two concepts are ultimately semantically opposed -
if for no other reason than
From the This-Is-To-Good-To-Believe dept:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/1839237/Aaron-Swartz-Indicted-in-Attempted-Piracy-of-Four-Million-Documents
JSTOR is the outfit that creates pay-walls for a huge number of important
papers.
-- Owen
I did not read all of the explosion of posts about philosophy (I was at a
conference when it happened), but...
This is a very limited view of what
it is that Philosophers do. One of the main points to come out of the American
Philosophical tradition is the notion that philosophy must continuously
I hope the Open University is accredited, that's where I got my MBA!
They had an interesting approach in the late 90s ( don't know if is the same
now): course fees included textbooks, so a week after signing up you would
get a big box through the mail full of the textbooks you would need for the
