Major textbook publishers sue open-education textbook start-up
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Assh^les Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education
Tyrant textbook publishers have no right to sue Boundless Learning who publish using creative commons licensed and otherwise freely available material. Boundless Learning then pulls all matter of content from free and open sources to create free and open versions of the textbooks the student selected. It’s no secret that the textbook industry is just as despicable as, say, the entertainment industry, working hard to artificially dive up pricing and get governments to mandate their expensive books – effectively creating a monopoly you can’t circumvent.