[TOS] Teaching materials, or textbook?

Ross Gardler ross.gardler at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu May 14 06:18:13 UTC 2009


2009/5/14  <tridge at samba.org>:
> Hi Karsten,
>
>  > FWIW, I agree with you, but we *may* have a hard time finding a
>  > publisher who agrees with us.  I'd be happy to try, though, so sign me
>  > up for that at least.
>
> That is partly why I'm suggesting cnx.org as the publisher. It gives
> us very cheap printing, unis can customise the book to their own
> needs, and it encourages the use of CC licenses that don't have the NC
> tag.

Shipping from cnx.org to anywhere outside the US makes the book very
expensive unless we have other means of printing the texts in each
locality. On the other hand I do like the cnx.org approach, Greg
should keep it in mind when discussing with O'Reilly.

Ross


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