Wikibooks to offer free eTexts for education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Robert Brumfield: Wikibooks to offer free eTexts for education, ESchool News November 2, 2005

Coverage in eSchool News of the Wikibooks project, a plan to provide free school textbooks. Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia comments, "I think that Wikibooks and projects like it will challenge licensed textbooks in the same way that Linux [the open-source computer operating system] and other free software and licensing models are challenging the software world". More...