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   On 5/14/13 7:54 PM, in article slrnkp5udo.2dh.g.kreme@mgb.local, "Lewis"   
    wrote:   
      
   > In message    
   >   Snit  wrote:   
   >> On 5/14/13 5:15 PM, in article slrnkp5l50.8dr.g.kreme@mbp55.local, "Lewis"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> In message <6mslf8lov53l$.r1sj4coksp1p.dlg@40tude.net>   
   >>>   flatfish+++  wrote:   
   >>>> On Tue, 14 May 2013 23:24:31 +0000 (UTC), Justin wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Boy, did I have a busy semester!  Once again I helped four classes get   
   >>>>> their  books for free with NON-DRM PDFs.  Each class had about 15   
   >>>>> students,   
   >>>>> undergrads and graduate.   
   >>>>> Here's a rundown of how much money I saved each class for this year:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Typical starry eyed, thieving FOSSie...   
   >>>   
   >>>> What is it with Linux users and FOSSies believing that just because   
   >>>> they can steal something from an "evil" corporation that makes it   
   >>>> alright?   
   >>>   
   >>> Normally I'd agree with you, but textbook publishers are scum who rape   
   >>> their 'customers' who have no choice in what to buy, and then kickback   
   >>> to the teachers. It is a classic example of collusion.   
   >   
   >> A kickback to the teachers?   
   >   
   >> How?   
   >   
   >> I teach at multiple educational institutions and have never been offered a   
   >> kickback. How do I get in on this scam?   
   >   
   > Write your own textbook and then negotiate your cut with the publisher.   
      
   I make my own materials then sell them direct. Then again, they are not used   
   nationally. But if they were I could see having a publisher get a cut. The   
   the bookstores would. By the time it was all done it would be 4x the cost   
   (just pulling a number out of some orifice there).   
      
   > it's not *legally* a kickback, so you won't go to jail, you'll just make   
   > your students pay $200 a book and generate a "new edition" every year so   
   > no one can use a used edition. The easiest way to make a new edition is   
   > to rearrange the questions.   
      
   I teach software classes - every time there is an update to the software I   
   need to make a new edition. Lots of work...   
      
      
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   fiction: .   
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