August 3, 2010 at 13:36Scott McNealy took up textbooks
Unfortunately for book publishers, Sun co-founder Scott McNealy had a lot of free time after Oracle bought his company. McNeely decided to invest time and money in his old Curriki project , where textbooks and lectures are laid out for free access. This is a real threat to the publishing business, which earns from selling textbooks from $ 8 billion to $ 15 billion per year, increasing prices every year, writes the NY Times.
Scott McNealy with his 12-year-old son.
According to Scott McNeely, the price increase is not entirely correct, because almost the same information does not appear in the same textbooks of mathematics every year: “Ten plus ten has already been twenty for quite some time,” he says.
As part of the Curriki project, experts jointly compose training materials, allowing them to be freely distributed in digital, print or audiobooks. Any school or institute can take this basic course and adapt it to their needs.
Scott McNealy with his 12-year-old son.
According to Scott McNeely, the price increase is not entirely correct, because almost the same information does not appear in the same textbooks of mathematics every year: “Ten plus ten has already been twenty for quite some time,” he says.
As part of the Curriki project, experts jointly compose training materials, allowing them to be freely distributed in digital, print or audiobooks. Any school or institute can take this basic course and adapt it to their needs.