[Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia

[rupert THURNER]

so the books could be uploaded to wikibooks, or wikimedia commons, one
could produce an epub or openzim file out of it for the people not
having a kindle? sounds great to me ...

rupert.


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:26 AM, James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have come across a collection of basic college textbooks that appear to be
> more or less based on text from Wikipedia. There are 21 of them. The
> company claims that they are being used by more than 2 million students.
>
> They are under a CC BY SA license and if you follow the links seen here
> http://books.google.ca/books?id=7avpAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2058 they do eventually
> attribute Wikipedia.
>
> They are being offered for free on amazon.com
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Boudless
> and
> are being sold for $19.99 on their website. https://www.boundless.com/
>
> So the question is should we have a response? I think this could generate
> position press for our movement. Attribution could be better (I would
> consider theirs to be borderline). Additionally should we be adding this
> textbooks to Wikiversity or Wikibooks to make sure they stay free available?
>
> --
> James Heilman
> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
>
> The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
> www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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