Since facts can't be copyrighted, and texts have plenty of facts that don't change much between generations, cheap texts in fundamentals could certainly be produced <i>if</i> professionals are hired to update the facts every few years.<p>Texts are dinosaur delivery systems for info. They leave the pretty-much untouched question of individualized computer-assisted learning wide-open ... a field which hasn't begun to emerge but most certainly will. The recent Khan Academy post here <a href="http://www.khanacademy.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.khanacademy.org/</a> is one pointer to a different future.