A textbook case …
Written by Steven Schwartz on July 23rd, 2008
Should students be required to purchase textbooks authored by their instructors? Does it matter whether the textbook is “self-published” or commercially published? These questions are currently being debated at many universities (see here for example).
For trade books (the books found in bookshops), self-publishing is known as “vanity” publishing because the only people who do it […]