In response to the current economic crisis facing not only our nation, but also higher education, Chronicle of Higher Education blogger Lev Gonick

predict[s] fundamental change is the impact of open educational resources on the textbook market. Traditional textbook publishers have held an iron lock on the industry’s model for too long, and universities have been tacitly complicit of the system. In the Web era, however, this oligopolistic business practice is imploding.

See the rest at the CHE website