that would be "Malanga".

I've seen 2 sides of this issue at this point--first working in publishing, now as a grad student. It's really a lose-lose situation; no one in textbook publishing is getting rich, students are going broke, and college bookstores (which--the Harvard Coop aside--are often wonderful resources in small college towns) are barely staying alive.

Many of my classes have used xeroxed readers instead of textbooks, which are still expensive and generally leave me with an un-resellable pile of paper at the end of the term. And one of my classes posted articles online, which I found to be a pain in the ass.

I think a well-written, well-edited, well-designed, up-to-date textbook is still pretty unbeatable, if rare. And all that writing, editing etc. is labor that ought to be fairly compensated. The Wikipedia model is all well and good, but I'm not sure it's reasonable--or a particularly good idea--to expect our major educational resources to be the work of amateur volunteers.