I'd love to see a non-profit, uncopyrighted website that

collected free disciplinary readings that could be automagically

combined into downloadable coursepacks. Or just open it to

instructors to prevent crushing bandwidth bills, and let them

worry about distribution to students. I suppose such a site

could also collect lesson plans, etc. although those usually need

to be taken in a particular context to be very helpful. Please

promulgate this idea so someone else will throw this together :)



Think of a Napster for free (legal) textbooks. Bookster (the

domain is only $5000). It's arguable that I'm just describing

Google.





I'm not ready to throw out traditional publishers, however,

because despite the numbing sameness of many composition

handbooks, there is still great stuff out there that probably

wouldn't have ever emerged without a publisher (and tenure

requirements).