free books -what do you think?

How do academics feel about free books?

David Wiley has written  about some excellent stuff on “flat world knowledge”. Text book problems such as high prices and new editions are being tackled by this project.

 Affordability and accesability is important to students so our librarian has used government money to buy e books. Open content is published by flat world. If we have open content how could publishers charge so much? "Flat World Knowledge: an open-source textbook revolution?" http://bit.ly/o4blFM

Makes me think do you see push-back from professors, who are the authors of the books their students are buying? Also I am

not sure how we sustain a pool of authors without being able to compensate them financially here's an academic press that similarly goes open: http://www.aupress.ca/

Accademics may get increased reputation from giving their academic text for free or supported by the university.

http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/960/1860 this looks interesting.

I have ensured my book on Lulu Dyslexia in the college is totally free to download or you can buy it!

Lastly gigapedia gives free books.