Joseph Ching, The Exponent (Purdue University); Buying textbooks: 'A sense of desperation'
"[Justin] Race [director of the Purdue University Press] said a major misconception is that people who purchase a
physical book are buying the actual book itself. By this logic, online
content would be inherently free.
“It’s much better to think of it
as, ‘I am buying the intellectual property,’” Race said. “The distilled
expertise by a scholar, the copy editing, proofreading, the design, the
cover design — and not so much for the paper and binding.”
Purdue
Libraries is in the early stages of its Open Bytes project, a
partnership with the College of Engineering to create educational
resources accessible to the world. These resources include textbooks,
lecture notes and case studies available beginning mid-2020, according
to a University press release."
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