Goodbye to Buyback?

How long before the rapacious practice of text-book sells and buybacks become a thing of the past?

Alternatives are emerging.

From BCHeights.com - student newspaper at Boston College last year:

While online music piracy has been prevalent since the late 1990s, a new ilk is emerging that affects publishers and college students everywhere: textbook piracy.

Check out Lev Gonick's blog about collaborative educational communities.

And, Seth Godin's recommendation for Amazon:

Demolish the textbook market as soon as possible by publishing open source textbooks for free.

Only 15 years too late.