higher education

Florida State Universities Launch Free Digital Textbook Program

Florida State Universities Launch Free Digital Textbook Program

If you’re going to school at a Florida state university, your fee burden just grew a little bit lighter:

Economics Professor Self-Publishes Textbook To Subvert Overpriced Publishing Industry

Economics Professor Self-Publishes Textbook To Subvert Overpriced Publishing Industry

R. Preston McAfee, a Cal Tech economics professor, is annoyed at how overpriced textbooks are. “‘The person who pays for the book, the parent or the student, doesn’t choose it,’ he said. ‘There is this sort of creep. It’s always O.K. to add $5.'” To fight back, he’s foregone the potential six-figure advance traditional publishing would have granted, and published his textbook online for free.