To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

open source textbooks must be offered as alternatives

State and federally supported colleges and universities must offer, when available, comparable open-source textbooks (free or nominally free) as alternatives to commercial course textbooks. Teachers must offer, as an alternative, these open-source textbooks in their syllabus.

Why is this important?

The cost of textbooks is exorbitant. Recently my stepson was told he needed to pay over $200 for an elementary algebra textbook at a community college. This is more than the cost of the course itself. I support a nationwide effort to lower textbook costs modeled on California's SB 1052 and SB 1053.

For details see
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/09/free-digital-textbooks-to-be-made-available-after-gov-jerry-brown-signs-bills.html

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