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"Orange Grove Text Plus (OGT+) is a joint initiative of the University Press of Florida and The Orange Grove repository. The goal of this partnership is to reduce the cost of books to students by offering no-cost downloadable and printable open access texts that are affordable, accessible, and adaptable to reader preferences. "

"The Last Langauge Textbook is a campaign to build a completely free collection of language lessons that can serve as a textbook replacement, available on the web, for anyone learning introductory English. We are building this material collaboratively using our existing picture choice, podcast, and multiple choice lesson types, along with a new "story book" one and traditional text wiki pages."

Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

"The CSU's Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and students each semester."

Open source textbook publisher projects $1M in savings OpenStax has been well received on college campuses as textbook prices remain stubbornly high College students in some of the most heavily attended courses in the country will eclipse $1 million in textbook savings after a Rice University-based publisher had 13,000 open-source books downloaded since June.

"Instead of mass-produced textbooks, the more than 3,100 sophomores in the state's largest district are learning from an online curriculum developed by their teachers over the summer with free software distributed over the web."

Looks very useful.

Lets you make an exportable ebook using whatever Wikipedia articles you want.