[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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