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The evil isn't downloading textbooks, it's the publishers pushing their outrageously priced products onto a captive audience, and the administrators who are complicit in selecting those expensive textbooks.

Publishers offer the textbooks for free for the administrators, there is zero talk of price, and then they simply elect to make the textbook part of their curriculum.

I had a philosophy professor that wrote his own "textbook" and sold it for $4 in the student store. Should have given him a bonus payment for being thoughtful.

One day we'll look back at how long we held onto the archaic way of delivering "higher education" and wonder why we allowed established institutions to fleece the public for so long.

I can get more out of a Kahn Academy video than 5x the time spent in a classroom.

Credentialing really should come down to performance on standardized exams on the subject matter, which can be administered very cheaply.