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		Evbn on Sept 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: California passes groundbreaking open textbook leg... Why not give the book away to students as part of their tuiton and earn your salary as a university professor?

nnnnnnnn on Sept 29, 2012 [–]

Because human beings generally have selfish interests. If you tell a person they may own and control a thing for profit, many will choose to do so.

Unsurprisingly, this is a choice made by a large number of professors

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