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DeLoughry, Thomas J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
Increasingly, college textbooks written to the specifications of individual professors are being produced on demand by custom publishers, often prepared very quickly to contain up-to-date information. Students prefer them to photocopied packets of readings. The trend is a reaction to the emergence of information-on-demand computer networks. (MSE)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Efficiency, Higher Education, Information Services
