{"id":9340,"date":"2016-09-27T18:54:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T22:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=9340"},"modified":"2016-09-27T18:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T22:54:36","slug":"the-crazy-price-of-college-textbooks-is-pushing-more-us-universities-to-adopt-an-open-source-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/the-crazy-price-of-college-textbooks-is-pushing-more-us-universities-to-adopt-an-open-source-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The crazy price of college textbooks is pushing more US universities to adopt an \u201copen-source\u201d solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/qzprod.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/rtr34mql.jpg?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>It&#8217;s crazy&#8230;it&#8217;s basically a book tax to have to purchase books at inflated prices when the same information could be delivered digitally via a &#8220;lend library&#8221; and included in your tuition. ALL the course material should be available in the college library at no charge, and should be able to be &#8220;checked out&#8221; from your laptop in your dorm room. With what tuition costs, to get raped again at the college book store for REQUIRED MATERIAL is hugely unfair&#8230;and discriminatory to less-privileged college students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2dxKp7i\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2dxKp7i<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s crazy&#8230;it&#8217;s basically a book tax to have to purchase books at inflated prices when the same information could be delivered digitally via a &#8220;lend library&#8221; and included in your tuition. ALL the course material should be available in the college library at no charge, and should be able to be &#8220;checked out&#8221; from your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-9340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11697,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-proposes-free-tuition-at-state-colleges\/","url_meta":{"origin":9340,"position":0},"title":"New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposes free tuition at state colleges","date":"January 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"OK...Good. 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