Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/03/several-textbook-publishers-sign-ipad-deals/> <http://mashable.com/2010/02/03/textbook-publishers-embrace-ipad/> <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10446865-37.html> ric On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Robert Meier wrote: > Why on earth would textbook publishers grant Apple the rights to make > their books available on the ipad? > > > On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:31 AM, rickfloyd at comcast.net wrote: > >> >> >> My kids undergraduate texts books are $500 - $600 per semester. That's >> about $125 to $150 per book on an average. >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Spencer Cheng" <spencer at aotera.org> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 10:20:21 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >> Subject: Re: [Leica] iPad and textbooks >> >> >> On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:41, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >>> Why so many college textbooks at $50 a pop? Many colleges, including >>> mine, >>> look for a magic number in evaluating professors for promotion. Our >>> college >>> counts the number of papers published in academic journals as a major >>> index. >>> Three peer reviewed papers equal one textbook. Judging from personal >>> experience it is quicker, and often easier, to write a textbook for >>> undergraduate courses than to do the research for a substantive paper. >>> Naturally the publishers want to sell co-pies of the books that they >>> print >>> so the professors are encouraged to require all students to buy the >>> latest >>> edition of the book. The iPad, using books accessed from the internet, >>> will >>> kill that market. The colleges will be forced to use a different metric >>> than >>> "Publish or perish." >> >> $50 a pop? Not even when I went to school a longtime ago. :) >> >> Engineering and computer science textbooks are more likely to be >> $100-$200 today. I've bought a technical book for work once that was >> about $1/page. >> >> Publish or perish still applies though. How else will they judge if >> someone is worthy of a professorship? >> >> If I am in school today, I would happily buy anything that would allow me >> not to carry around 5Kg of paper every day to/from class. I have computer >> so an extension like an iPad would not be a problem. >> >> Regards, >> Spencer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information