texbooks
Textbook Boycott: Let's do this thing
Happy new year! Let's make the Man squirm!
Here's the plan:
- It was suggested that it would be easier to boycott all new editions instead of just one, and would be easier to get people to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, instead of targeting one publisher, we're going to target them all.
- We'll start as soon as people's semesters start. Some schools are doing their interim/J-term right now, which we're unfortunately too late for, but second semester is still just over the horizon for many peoples. Therefore, we still have time to hunt down used textbooks.
- We need a basic form letter that we can send to professors expressing our intent. I'm willing to write one, but it'd be nice to have a few of them to work with. Anyone willing to write a few paragraphs?
I'm going to set up a project page here for us to coordinate information. Let's go make some old people with printing presses nervous!