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Publishers take down ebook file sharing site
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article published on 17 February, 2012
Global publishers Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and Pearson Education Ltd, among others, have taken down the popular ebook file sharing sites library.nu and ifile.it.
The alliance of publishers say the two sites had "created an internet library" with over 400,000 unauthorized ebooks available for free.
Operators of the sites are said to have brought in over $10 million in advertising, ... [ read the full article ]
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17. February 2012 @ 01:20 |
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Charge $200 for some of my science textbooks and then they make new "editions" so I can't resell because it's not current. Keep in mind there is barley a difference. Shut down a site that is good for the students paying a shit load for university already. Textbooks are one of the biggest scams you can come by.
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17. February 2012 @ 01:49 |
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sounds like they shut down a library.only difference is the library was online.
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patrick_
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17. February 2012 @ 03:05 |
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not sure what ifile.it has to do with this story. Anyways, it's still online.
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Mysttic
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17. February 2012 @ 08:42 |
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It was expensive when I graduated 10 years ago, I can only imagine how much mark up has been done to text-books since. Seriously this a step backwards for our generation.
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jdempsey
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17. February 2012 @ 10:25 |
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I can definitely appreciate how expensive text books are. I'm pretty sure I still owe a buddy of mine a couple hundred bucks for books I got from him.
But if the books are available for free and the publishers don't get paid why would the publishers bother making them? And if they don't then who will?
I completely agree about making new editions that don't have any changes. Why should we buy a new book when the professor hasn't changed their lectures in 15 years?
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molsen
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17. February 2012 @ 10:43 |
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Or the "kickback/incentive" a instructor gets for using a certain book. Did I say that?
It has been a while since attending a University, but I know there is a scam to get you to not recoup money back from intial investment. I think these publishers are try to set a precedent for the continuation of tablet storage of books.
These publishers remind me a little like Kodak. Time will tell though.
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SProdigy
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17. February 2012 @ 15:01 |
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Or a set of professors I had that published their OWN textbook, which was just a Xerox copied 50 page manual, bound with plastic, sold in the University's book store. Best part: the book contained "worksheets" that you had to tear out and turn in, making it impossible to resell or recoup any of the costs. Talk about a scam!
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17. February 2012 @ 15:03 |
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Originally posted by dude845:
Charge $200 for some of my science textbooks and then they make new "editions" so I can't resell because it's not current. Keep in mind there is barley a difference. Shut down a site that is good for the students paying a shit load for university already. Textbooks are one of the biggest scams you can come by.
This is 100% accurate. One time was forced to buy a newer edition (the 7th edition in 10 years) and it actually had MORE errors than the older edition. Just a scam business, all of it.
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GarethDestan
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25. February 2012 @ 01:52 |
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I have had to buy a $200 book for first semester, then $150 book for second semester where half of second book is exact copy of part of first book. I HAD to buy it as Pearson has a code in the book you need to put into their shite website to be able to do the homework assignments. They expire after the semester so you can't use the code over again.
I don't see Anonymous taking down this horrible homework website... but I would like them to...
www.myitlab.com
All my fellow students hate it for Excel as it TRULY sucks but we are stuck buying books because of that shitty little card with the code.
THIS is why I HATE Pearson. It is all about the money, as they did not fix the errors in the next version of the book!
In an online quiz, question x answer is wrong and can be proven wrong when you look at Chapter x page x, first para line 3 says something else is the right answer. but you have to answer it wrong to get the marks... WTF is with that?
meh... when I finish college, I will have firewood to burn. Call the schoolbooks firewood...
The borrower is slave to the master. Get out of debt and screw the banks!
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