MS>I don't know much about what publishers are doing about electronic
  >replacements for books.  They seem to be very tentative to
  >this point, and  unsure of what to charge for the products
  >they do have.  I have tried to  price online encyclopedias
  >for our UMassK12 internet service for teachers and
  >students.  They are either incapable of generating a price
  >or else come up  with something totally unaffordable.  One
  >wanted us to pay $20,000 for our  2,000 users.  Needless
  >to say, we could not do that.
Did you require your text to be used by the students in your class ?  :)
CD encyclopedias are very available as you know and every year they
produce an up date which is the same with changes and updates.  We have
two sets of paper encyclopedias which cost over two thousand dollars and
that does not include yearly updates for the last ten years.  The
encyclopedias were offered to the local schools and they declined due to
space problems so they went to the library instead.  They did however
accept my three previous years CD encyclopedias.
I think the solution will be that the producers of text will have to
become more reasonable in their offerings.  If not other sources will
emerge to fill the void.  I can understand your bias since you invested
five years to create a text.  The reality is that if we were all payed
for our intellectual property writes very little information would be
transferred.
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 X QMPro 1.53 X All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.
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