Nicole Allen on Open Textbooks.
In this video, Nicole Allen, the OER Program Director at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (http://www.sparc.arl.org), formerly the Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign Director at the Student Public Interest Research Groups (http://www.studentpirgs.org), discusses the problems with current textbook paradigm and the promise of open textbooks.
Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY5TVSdH_sk link to open resource.