First it was copied music and now copied textbooks. The NY Times describes how students are now sharing pdfs of textbooks. The article describes a student who scans and distributes an organic chemistry book.
As a prof. and also an author, this disturbs me. Textbook companies have resisted moving their content to a digital format because they are convinced it will be ripped off. News like this will certainly not encourage a shift to a more cost-effective and flexible format.
On a similar theme, it appears a site is trying to generate traffic by offering to serve as a repository for magazines scanned and submitted by “readers”.
