Timeline for Why would an academic write a textbook for free?
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| Jul 13, 2017 at 20:21 | comment | added | ChuckCottrill | Cory Doctorow has expressed similar sentiments. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 21:24 | comment | added | Carsten S | Just having read the question, I would not have expected this to be under an open license. This is of course an important distinction. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 18:59 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @Shautieh He hosts the book on his universities .edu server. It doesn't appear to have any direct monetization on the pages (my blockers give it a clean bill of health). I can't rule out indirect income (eg speakers fees related to the book) but the page doesn't appear to be generating any income itself. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 8:27 | comment | added | Eric Duminil | @ΈρικΚωνσταντόπουλος: Rep isn't everything. Upvotes can still help towards badges (tag badge, great answer, ...) : David J. Eck got 6 badges from this question alone. Anyway, he's a full professor and a known author. He probably doesn't need much more recognition. He could play guitar in a famous rock band, though :D | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 2:33 | comment | added | Shautieh | If I may ask: given the poor revenue of published books, may the revenue you get from your website traffic be higher in the long run? years of advertisement and being linked from all over the internet must bring back some money, and maybe more than the published alternative... | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 0:18 | comment | added | smci | For the regularly-published textbook, does the publisher have an economic motive to perpetually retain copyright ('evergreen') the book by printing-on-demand and never revising it? Kind of like Disney? | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 21:00 | comment | added | Shokhet | Awesome answer! You may want to consider registering your account, to enable more site features, including voting. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | Shantnu Tiwari | +1 for copyright issues. With traditional publishing, you lose control over your book for pennies. It's almost worth just giving the book away to help people | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 23:29 | vote | accept | I Like to Code | ||
| Jul 9, 2017 at 16:40 | comment | added | I Like to Code | I never expected to get an answer directly from you, the author himself! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 14:12 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 9, 2017 at 14:10 | history | answered | David J. Eck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |