On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 14:40 -0500, Ralph Morelli wrote: > HI Greg, > > No I didn't know about this site. Thanks for the the link. I would > definitely consider using some of these texts in my courses. I took a > quick look at a few titles--one by Sedgewick at Princeton, another by > Eck. Both are well known authors. Sedgewick's stuff is very high > quality. > > I think the books are contributed by the authors not by the > publishers, who would have no incentive to do so. I'm in the process > of trying to get the copyright back from Prentice Hall for my own Java > text book. My sense is that authors generally have the right to their > copyright if the publisher no longer wishes to publish the book. In > my case they published 3 editions and are now doing nothing with it. > When my co-author and I do get the copyright, I will definitely > consider adding it to this site. I was thinking of adding it to Wiki > books, but that seems to be more for collaborative books-in-progress. >
would you consider adding it to FLOSS Manuals? adam > I'm going to forward this to my colleagues and students. > Thanks, > -- ralph > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Jadud <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:32, Greg DeKoenigsberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://freetechbooks.com/ > > > > So let me ask you this, profs. Did you know about these? > Would you use > > them? If not, why not? Would it be worthwhile to review > these textbooks? > > > Some are good, some are not. I go searching whenever I'm > developing > something for use in class. > > I think I see a potential intermittent thread for posting > about... > > Cheers, > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
