A First Course in Linear Algebra (A Free Textbook)
http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html
Seth's Blog: Textbook rant
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/textbook-rant.html

Seth Godin telling it like it is when it comes to the type of thing students are learning in marketing classes from outdated, overpriced, and misguided textbooks. I've seen this firsthand at so many interviews with business school students. A-frickin-men, Seth!

This industry deserves to die. It has extracted too much time and too much money and wasted too much potential. We can do better. A lot better.

A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing.

K-12 textbooks; influence of Texas on the process; influence of Texas 'conservative Christian activists' on the selection process; "A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing."

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