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nobody knows answer….

In addition, yes they did sue another college student. In Pearson Education, John Wiley & Sons, Cengage Learning, Mcgraw-Hill v. Shi, they argued that the defendant (a Missouri student) allegedly sold homework assignments. Folks, you can’t sell your homework assignments. It also makes an excellent excuse for not turning your homework in on time. You can say you didn’t have permission from the publisher to create a derivative work.

Here’s another lawsuit from a student all the way back in 2005. Hmm, I think I’m seeing a trend here. Check out http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y05/m04/i25/s02.

In my opinion, it seems typical of the publishers to offer a cease and then demand money. Some of these students online write stories, thinking that the publishers like to go into litigation, thereby making the minimal amount to settle in the five-figure range.

So in regards to a new business model, I think they may have found it. Considering majority (if not ALL) of these cases are filed in the Southern District of New York and majority (if not ALL) are filed by the 2-lawyer law firm of William Dunnegan , LLC.

Considering all of their publications are now in electronic format and that some of their texts (prior to 2000) give permission to copy into electronic format, I think something smells fishy.
By the way, John Wiley’s Legal Director Roy Kaufman and their outside counsel at Dunnegan, LLC both went to law school at the same time.

Isn’t it odd that YOU, the consumer, have heard absolutely nothing about these cases? 12 cases this year alone.

Maybe the publishers should see that paying upwards of 150+ for a textbook that I will be using for just a few months(like most of mine, with the exception of a few books) x the number of classes I take (4-6) is just too much money.

An extreme example, imagine paying the price of a car for just getting a ride in a taxi. The price doesn’t fit! It doesn’t take long before students figure out that instead of paying twice as much in school stores that they can get it for half or even less for something a used book, WHICH IS JUST AS GOOD!

The question is: is it all about money, or is it about letting people achieve their potentials? I think I know where you stand, at least.

I heard in a recent Buzz-Out-Loud podcast that schools like Princeton, Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley are creating textbooks for the Kindle.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9979179-7.html

Maybe this is the answer we’re looking for. Would I buy an electronic version of my Physics book that I can put on my Kindle and expires at the end of the semester (or I can buy and keep) for a fraction of the cost? Heck yea! Plus it would cost less to produce and distribute.