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 [Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Stephen's Web] Wikibooks to offer free eTexts for education , ESchool News: Coverage in eSchool News of the Wikibooks project, a plan to provide free school textbooks. Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia comments, "I think that Wikibooks and projects like it will challenge licensed textbooks in the same way that Linux [the open-source computer operating system] and other free software and licensing models are challenging the software world."

[if:book] can there be great textbooks without great authors?: You say, "This book won the distinction of "collaboration of the month" for October, which suggests that, within the purview of wikibooks, it represents a superior effort." Yet, the Collaboration of the Month Project page says only that "The hope is that the Wikibook will advance quickly over that period." It doesn't lift the book up as a good example. In fact I think the opposite is true.

[TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home] “Can there be great textbooks without great authors?’: IMG Wikibooks logo “”¦what will the consequences be if poorly written, plagiarized, open-sourcetextbooks become the runaway hit that Wikibooks predicts?” - Kim White in if:book. Strong stuff, but the blog has disturbing specifics. As a Wiki booster, I hope that Jimmy Wales will expand existing

[if:book] can there be great textbooks without great authors?: If the first page of the wikibook-of-the month blatantly rips-off one of the most popular art history books in print and nobody notices, how will Wikibooks be able to police the other 11,000 plus textbooks it intends to sponsor? What will the consequences be if poorly written, plagairized, open-source textbooks become the runaway hit that Wikibooks predicts?

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