[Athen] FW: I wanted you to know this

[Deborah Armstrong]

I sent this to our department chair. I just hate how publishers keep tweaking their editions. Be aware!


From: Deborah Armstrong
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 2:11 PM
To: Carol Cini <cinicarol at fhda.edu>
Subject: I wanted you to know this

I had another visually impaired student taking History 17A from another instructor an adjunct. This student does read visually; he just needs to be able to zoom the book.
So I got him a PDF from the publisher, Volume 1 of The American Promise, the 8th value edition.
But the instructor is complaining to me that it's the wrong book, because the end of chapter questions are different.
It turns out the publisher sent me the electronic (ebook) edition of the value edition of the 8th edition (Can we just shoot this publisher?).
And it appears indeed, though its text is identical its end of chapter questions differ from what's in the looseleaf or hardback actual print value edition.
And I got a seven-day academic rental to find out what students actually receive when they rent the book from our bookstore at only $34 a quarter. (They rent to view it on a smartphone, tablet or computer.)
And that's the same thing I got in PDF from the publisher. I bet it's the same thing they put in to their Learning Management System they call "My History Course".
So since you are department chair, will you please tell your other history teachers that they cannot depend on the printed book to be identical to the ebook, and they should get an academic rental of the ebook to check that what they teach from matches what students get. This affects able-bodied, not just students with disabilities!
Respectfully,
Deborah Armstrong
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