Book People Archive

Re: Free mathematics textbook, TeX source with GFDL license

> Thanks for this!  I'm seeing increasing interest in free online textbooks,
> and not just from teachers and students either. I'm starting to hear
> interest from people in local governments that are considering
> textbook policies.

The state PIRGs are heavily involved in this:
  http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.com

> If there are other good free textbook indexes out there, that don't simply
> duplicate the ones above, I'd be very interested in hearing about them.

  http://theassayer.org/
  http://libertytextbooks.org/

> I'll also be happy to add individual listings for textbooks that have
> made it into major libraries, or that are assigned as course reading
> in classes at appropriate institutions that *aren't* the author's.
> If anyone knows of some such titles that I don't already list, please
> send me details.  I realize that there is lots of useful informal, draft, or
> low-profile material that these criteria won't cover, but hopefully the
> most significant online textbooks will meet these criteria, and
> sites like textbookrevolution.org and others can cover the broader
> spectrum of course materials more thoroughly than I can in my titles index.

One that you might want to list is my wife's French text:
  http://www.lightandmatter.com/french/
I think it meets your criteria -- at the top of the page is a list of
schools that have adopted it.

Here's another that I think qualifies:
  http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html
This is a text that was published by a major publisher in the 70's. The
copyright has now reverted to the author, who has made it free online.
(Very cool book, BTW.)