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daniel49

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Heres an idea for making higher education a little bit cheaper.
Buisness buys your text for you. the catch of course your subject to thier advertising.
discuss:
Edit:moved from P and N but will throw it out anyway
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2Xtreme21

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Hey, why not? If it means less money I have to pay, then I'd say go for it. I don't use my books all that often anyway. :p
 
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AccruedExpenditure

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Lets say the average student buys 400 dollars worth of books a semester... To break even someone would have to be able to place 400 dollars worth of ads in front of you, every six months... yeah... this isn't going to happen.

 
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mwtgg

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No. To be honest, $800/yr is chump change in comparison to the total cost of education. Why defile a TEXTBOOK with corporate sponsors?
 
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flawlssdistortn

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seriously, why doesnt someone just put up torrents of the books. I mean I'm getting raped here! fvcking $450 a semester:| And that they change the editions of the books like every semester so you have to buy new! Why do I have to pay hundreds of dollars to *buy* knowledge that should be freely available (and btw I am already paying for it through tuition). On top of it, I have to work my ass off to get all that stuff in my head. What a rip off!! And it's the book publishers that see most of the money, not the professors who actually did the hard part. The publishers are worse than the recording industry. Gotta get rid of all these middlemen making money off everyone else.

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daniel49

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herkulease

article doesn't mention how the ads work?

are they stuck between pages?

He says Freeload?s ads won?t be distracting; they will be placed only at natural breaks in the material, and won?t push products like alcohol or tobacco. Schools with other concerns could customize their standards; for instance Brigham Young University, founded by Mormons, could nix ads for caffeine products.

eits

where do i sign up?
http://www.freeloadpress.com/


You must read the whole article grasshoppers;)
 
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