As a college instructor and a citizen concerned about the cost of financing higher education, I share the outrage over textbook costs.<p>But I don't expect to be outraged for long about the dinosaus textbooks are.  The sale, bianuual revision of a text, and sale of its next edition is breeding revolts and moves to alternative models.  If I get tired of waiting when I retire (soon) I will <i>help launch</i> the revolt: turning to models of publicly-held, easy-to-update, non-tree-cutting formats such as wikis.<p>I don't attempt to prophecy often, but: "Textbooks are the next... newspapers."