[TOS] Fwd: Various free textbooks

adam adam at xs4all.nl
Sat Feb 6 07:23:52 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 14:40 -0500, Ralph Morelli wrote:
> HI Greg,
> 
> No I didn't know about this site.  Thanks for the the link.  I would
> definitely consider using some of these texts in my courses.  I took a
> quick look at a few titles--one by Sedgewick at Princeton, another by
> Eck.  Both are well known authors.   Sedgewick's stuff is very high
> quality.  
> 
> I think the books are contributed by the authors not by the
> publishers, who would have no incentive to do so.  I'm in the process
> of trying to get the copyright back from Prentice Hall for my own Java
> text book.  My sense is that authors generally have the right to their
> copyright if the publisher no longer wishes to publish the book.  In
> my case they published 3 editions and are now doing nothing with it.
> When my co-author and I do get the copyright, I will definitely
> consider adding it to this site.  I was thinking of adding it to Wiki
> books, but that seems to be more for collaborative books-in-progress.
> 

would you consider adding it to FLOSS Manuals?

adam



> I'm going to forward this to my colleagues and students.
> Thanks,
> -- ralph
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Jadud <mjadud at allegheny.edu>
> wrote:
>         Hi Greg,
>         
>         On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:32, Greg DeKoenigsberg
>         <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
>         > http://freetechbooks.com/
>         >
>         > So let me ask you this, profs.  Did you know about these?
>          Would you use
>         > them?  If not, why not?  Would it be worthwhile to review
>         these textbooks?
>         
>         
>         Some are good, some are not. I go searching whenever I'm
>         developing
>         something for use in class.
>         
>         I think I see a potential intermittent thread for posting
>         about...
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Matt
>         
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