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...used to be that a pile of paperbacks was assigned reading for an English course, a sourcebook contained most of the articles needed for a Core class in historical study and a 900-page tome was the only way to wade through introductory physics or biology...
...long as texts stimulate interest and questions among students, then they are doing their job," Thomas says. "The sourcebook could simply be snapshots of a textbook; the two may not be different in kind. One is just a selection of the other...
Students rarely blink an eye these days when asked to purchase a sourcebook or two for their classes, but the now-familiar collection of copyrighted material was not always a standard fixture in all classes...
...just flat text on a page or a cartoon balloon. Language has form and substance also; [it] exists like little bodies also." So make the trek down to MIT and watch as Jill Reynolds and her assistants make language come alive. You might never look at your sourcebook the same way again...
However, the story does not end there. Once the Coop receives the sourcebooks, it marks them up an additional 30 percent. This seems a little on the steep side, but we can't protest to our neighborhood Coop. The price mark-up is set by Barnes & Nobles, which bought the Coop and now, hand-in-hand with Starbucks, is well on its way to taking over the world. Somehow such a vast corporation seems too formidable to confront about my sourcebook price. So, placated by the copyright law, I let the sourcebook question rest...