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[Iain Emsley-2]

Afternoon,

I've just seen this article on Wired which I thought might be of interest:
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/open-source-tex.html

Iain

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[Iain Emsley-2]

I wonder if the torrenting of text books might have been the final  
straw. I'll be curious to see how it pans out for both small and large  
companies.

Iain

Quoting Luis Villa <luis@...>:

> Surprised it took this long. The textbook industry, like the Unix
> industry before it, has been ripe for a gutting by a
> low-cost-structure, peer-production competitor for a long time.
>
> Luis
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Iain Emsley  
> <print.crimes@...> wrote:
>> Afternoon,
>>
>> I've just seen this article on Wired which I thought might be of interest:
>> http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/open-source-tex.html
>>
>> Iain
>>
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>>
>> Iain Emsley
>>
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[Luis Villa-3]

Surprised it took this long. The textbook industry, like the Unix
industry before it, has been ripe for a gutting by a
low-cost-structure, peer-production competitor for a long time.

Luis

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Iain Emsley <print.crimes@...> wrote:

> Afternoon,
>
> I've just seen this article on Wired which I thought might be of interest:
> http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/open-source-tex.html
>
> Iain
>
> --
>
> Iain Emsley
>
> Blog: www.yatterings.com
> Mobile: [phone]
>
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[Luis Villa-3]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Iain Emsley <print.crimes@...> wrote:
> I wonder if the torrenting of text books might have been the final straw.

Nah, the final straw is that all their customers hate them for
producing something with very high costs and minimal incremental
value. They've been dead for a while- it was just a matter of time
before someone played the Haley Joel Osment role.

> I'll be curious to see how it pans out for both small and large companies.

There will be very few large companies left; the industry just got a
lot smaller.

Luis

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