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> I wrote an article in French on exploring the economics of textbooks, from the open-source point of view, a few years back

Thanks for that, it’s very informative. I contemplated publishing a book that way and never actually got that far into the planning phase. Do you think things have changed much since then?

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I have not kept a very close look on what’s going on. I would say that three things have changed since:

- tablets are everywhere in the classrooms now, so the number of places where a good PDF can do good is much bigger

- there are better workflows to get a high-quality PDF than LaTeX, so much frustration can be saved, and all that can be learned easily with AI tools

- in a sea of AI slop, all the humans are desperate for a One Good Resource they can trust

Go for it!!!!

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