| Professor helps cut rising cost of books
Craig Martin, a Kansas University professor and chairman of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been involved with a national movement to help offer students a lower price for their textbooks. Three years ago Martin put two textbook publishing companies in a bidding war for the lowest sale price and in doing so was able to offer his students their required text at nearly half of the initial price. .
Your Views: Earlier thoughts on music downloading
Yes. Clearly the music industry as it has been over the last 80 years or so is history. The rate of decline of record sales and royalties will be exponential. Musicians will need to perform live to make money. That's life. Ashley
Reading the various responses on this site is enough to send a chill up anyones spine. I do not think I have ever heard so many different ways of justifying theft. Robert
The Recording Industry is always quick to blame lower CD sales as the result of piracy. They dont seem to consider the possibility that consumers are not interested in the same music year after year. I have not purchased a single CD in a couple of years now. I buy my music (legit) online. I am also more into internet Radio and Indie music as there is a lot of great unknown talent.
CNBC's Mad Money to Broadcast From IU
CNBC's Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money, will broadcast from Indiana University's Assembly Hall on April 4. A group of students at IU's Kelley School of Business say they made it a goal to get Cramer to broadcast his show from the Bloomington campus after they formed their own Mad Money club last April.
Source: Inside INdiana Business
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Guarding your identity
That's Det. Kristin Daly's best advice for coping with an onslaught of determined identity thieves.Daly, a Howard Township resident who has been with the Cass County Sheriff's Office for about 10 years after four years with Probate Court, said this area has experienced its own version of the notorious e-mail "Nigerian scam.""A couple of weeks ago in Dowagiac a gentleman was contacted by someone in Nigeria. He said, 'I've got a job for you. I'm going to give you these names and addresses and you forward these checks to these people. Tell them to cash these checks and send you some money back, then you keep a portion and send the rest to me.' People still fall for it." "Another scam we've just got within the last couple of weeks" at the Sheriff's Office involved eBay, the online auction service.An individual was legitimately bidding on a tractor.He received notification that he won, but failed to notice he was sending $5,000 to New Mexico instead of to the owner in New York.
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