By Jake New. A free-textbook company that was sued last year by three major textbook publishers has now rewritten the content it was accused of stealing.Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education filed a joint complaint in March 2012 against the company, known as Boundless. The publishers asserted that the way Boundless creates its textbooks violates their copyrights. In a process called “alignment,” students select the traditional text they need, and Boundless pulls together open content to create free versions of the books. Read more...
