The Price is Right: 11 Excellent Sites for Free Digital Textbooks
In the past I’ve mentioned a few sources for free eTexts including Bookboon and OpenStax, well here is a list that contains them and many more.
I may re-post this link before the beginning of each semester because it’s about time we started taking this more seriously. Text books cost a fortune and according to this report this why most students don’t buy them.
“In the United States, over 75% of students decide not to buy the textbooks their classes require, in large part because students find textbooks too expensive and are discouraged by the simple fact that quite often, only a few chapters from the books are needed for study.”
I know it’s easier to just fall in line with the major publishers, but how about we get the ball rolling by using eTexts as the secondary resources or just specific chapters from eTexts, it’s not like there’s a cost attached.
I’d still like to see a curated review site that breaks down all free offerings by subject, so if you know of one, drop me a line.