Quote Originally Posted by sdenney View Post
Yes, you textbook people are so honest in your business dealings. When you try to sell US students a book at $200 and then turn around and sell to international students the same book for $40, there's a big problem. When you are using the same textbook the next semester and will only buy back my barely used one for $5, there's a problem.

Free collaborative efforts have spawned some of the most incredible ideas and products, the most prominent this day and age has been Linux. It is a collaborative idea nearly 20 years in the making and is embedded in many of todays home electronics.

If Andrew chooses to produce his map for free, then so be it. (I could see charging for the print and lamination if he comes out with a paper version).
I am not suggesting that he charge for it at all and i agree he can do whatever he wishes with it. As to texts, I see you are beginning to understand marketing...let andrew explain market segmentation and protest to your university regarding your bookstore poliicies. My post was directed at the comment he made with regard to the selling of an existing devil's map. Opportunity cost is a difficult concept to grasp...any action has as a cost its next best alternative. Having used linux to run mail servers back in the early days of the internet (remember bitnet?) i certainly spent a few minutes getting it configured.