US textbook publishers are colluding with universities to bill students for a subscription to each class's textbooks.

This precludes any chance of avoiding their price gouging. But there are more important issues at stake than money. This scheme surely continues the usual injustices of e-books: DRM, identifying the user, and a contract promising to act like jerk.

The first article linked to above advocates "open access". That term is weak — it asks for too little. We should insist on free/libre educational resources, because most "open educational resources" are not free/libre.

It also uses the misleading term "intellectual property", a bogus concept that spreads confusion every time it is used.