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"Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has been a long-time advocate of free, open source textbooks and educational materials. Now that Sun is no more, he and Vinod Khosla (co-founder of Sun) are more actively pursuing their efforts to radically change the way educational materials make it into kids’ hands and, hopefully, taking us closer to a point where our reliance on expensive, dead-tree textbooks goes the way of their former company.

McNealy and his social learning/textbook site, Curriki, were profiled by the New York Times yesterday and he called out something that most of us already know: the cost of textbooks is unacceptable and open source models can completely disrupt the multibillion dollar industry to the benefit of worldwide education."

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"More to the point, it's a step toward electronic textbooks, and away from the bizarre economy of print textbooks. DynamicBooks textbooks, which will accessible on an computer, as well as the iPhone (and presumably the iPad) will be much—about 50%—cheaper than print textbooks, which are sold at high prices with the expectation that they'll later be resold."

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"On Monday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promoted his state's recently announced initiative, which would see it adopt free, digital textbooks in time for the next school year."

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"Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday plans to unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book reader with a larger screen and other features designed to appeal to periodical and academic textbook publishers, according to people familiar with the matter."

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