Comments on: Colorado Community College System Announces Flat-price Electronic Textbooks from Pearson Education http://dltj.org/article/cccs-flat-price-etextbooks/ We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:47:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: the Jester http://dltj.org/article/cccs-flat-price-etextbooks/comment-page-1/#comment-34273 the Jester Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:53:32 +0000 https://dltj.org/?p=386#comment-34273 Charmain, I certainly don't feel qualified to talk about the legal standing of a monopoly claim, but I wonder if what the Colorado Community College System is doing is any different than charging students for lab fees or other components that are necessary for the school to perform its educational mission. Isn't it a case where the institution has chosen to in-source something that previously was outsourced? Charmain,

I certainly don’t feel qualified to talk about the legal standing of a monopoly claim, but I wonder if what the Colorado Community College System is doing is any different than charging students for lab fees or other components that are necessary for the school to perform its educational mission. Isn’t it a case where the institution has chosen to in-source something that previously was outsourced?

]]> By: Charmain http://dltj.org/article/cccs-flat-price-etextbooks/comment-page-1/#comment-34262 Charmain Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:43:36 +0000 https://dltj.org/?p=386#comment-34262 The problem with this entire issue is that it blocks the off campus stores from providing this product at a cheaper price. Because it is automatically taken as an addition to the tuition, the student is not provided the opportunity to obtain this product anywhere else. I foresee a possible legal action to block this monopoly. The problem with this entire issue is that it blocks the off campus stores from providing this product at a cheaper price. Because it is automatically taken as an addition to the tuition, the student is not provided the opportunity to obtain this product anywhere else. I foresee a possible legal action to block this monopoly.

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]]> By: The Complex World of the Textbook | Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/article/cccs-flat-price-etextbooks/comment-page-1/#comment-33570 The Complex World of the Textbook | Disruptive Library Technology Jester Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:32:39 +0000 https://dltj.org/?p=386#comment-33570 [...] Friday, July 11th: Even while this post was being conceived, news was spreading about an agreement between the Colorado Community College System and Pearson Education for flat pricing of digital textbook material. I found this via a convoluted path starting from a link that Lorcan Dempsey posted in a comment on this blog entry and ended up with a summary of the program posted on DLTJ. [...] [...] Friday, July 11th: Even while this post was being conceived, news was spreading about an agreement between the Colorado Community College System and Pearson Education for flat pricing of digital textbook material. I found this via a convoluted path starting from a link that Lorcan Dempsey posted in a comment on this blog entry and ended up with a summary of the program posted on DLTJ. [...]

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