Open-sourcing textbooks?

[Thorin]

Interesting article from Ars Technica, where an erstwhile-textbook-publisher explains why he started up Flat World Knowledge and how his idea of open-sourcing textbooks (and making them free on the web) is going to make him a ton of money.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/flat-world-knowledge.ars/1

On a side note, it also explains why textbooks cost so much and why they're updated every year.

[Mr. Analog]

Here's an interesting related article:

http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/10/1556242.shtml

The comments on this one have actually got a lot of interesting points to make as well from some educated people who work in the industry (and, well a lot of crap comments too, but still!).