Textbook Prices and Piracy

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Listen Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 at 1:06 p.m. in Arts & Culture, Education, Science

Students have always railed against the high price of textbooks, but today's students have something generations of others did not: file-sharing technology. As textbook prices continue to rise, more and more students are pirating textbooks online--and American publishers are worried. We discuss the future of textbooks and the issues at stake when copyright law is transported into the digital age.

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Guests

Michael Carroll

Visiting Professor, American University Washington College of Law; Board Member, Creative Commons

Ed McCoyd

Head of the Online Piracy Working Group, Association of American Publishers

Peter Sunde

A founder and spokesman for The Pirate Bay (http://thepiratebay.org/)

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