That is actually quite encouraging. As far as I know it's not that widespread where I'm at. Although more people are using Angel/Blackboard to distribute materials, books still seem to be the old fashioned kind.
On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Mar 19, at 11:09 AM, Rick Burnett wrote: > >> If you could get textbooks at a reasonable price on the Kindle >> (even on a time-limited basis), I think that it could be big for >> higher education. >> No more lugging around 30lbs of books, all of the hassles >> associated with campus bookstores, and searching within the text... >> A undergraduates dream. Now of course us grad students are still >> tied to other things. >> Although I do see that Papers is now available for the iPhone... >> hmmm.... > > For the last few years, I've been using books in advanced courses > that are available for download. For example, this semester, I'm > teaching the second semester of the senior/graduate real analysis > sequence and the text is Elementary Real Analysis (a deceptive > title) by Thomson, Bruckner and Bruckner. It's available as a > traditional book for regular book prices and as a PDF-file download > from youpublish.com for much less money. > > Not many students have the paper version. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
