Faculty Selling Desk Copies-The Textbook Industry, the Law and the Ethics

Journal of Academic Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-31

  Davis, Laura Marini ^a   Usry, Mark ^a  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic ethics; Complimentary textbooks; Desk copies; e books; Faculty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957455547     PISSN: 15701727     EISSN: 15728544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10805-011-9128-1     Document Type: Review

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