Free textbooks?
by
Annie Enchakattu
| Aug 02, 2010
The United States spends $8 billion to $15 billion per year on textbooks, estimates Scott McNealy, former chief executive of Sun Microsystems and current Board member of Curriki, a nonprofit online hub for free textbooks and other course material. "It seems to me we could put that all online for free," he says. To learn more about the push toward more use of open-source texts, read
this article by Ashlee Vance in
The New York Times.