On: 3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Sta...

[rbanffy]

Still, it's interesting to see they copied nothing but what's included in the official textbook (which is needed to cover what the student will have to learn). Once a given textbook is selected and becomes a requirement, it's publisher is given an effective monopoly on supplying a given course.

Shouldn't they be more regulated then?

[wmf → rbanffy]

Or maybe professors should be more regulated.

[rbanffy → wmf]

Agreed. Both sides of this relationship should be heavily regulated and scrutinized.