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Amended
IN
Assembly
May 08, 2012 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 10, 2012 |
Assembly Bill | No. 2471 |
Introduced by
Assembly Member
Lara |
February 24, 2012 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 66409.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:66409.5.
(a) The Trustees of the California State University and the governing board of each community college district shall, and the Regents of the University of California and the governing body of each private postsecondary educational institution that offers a baccalaureate degree are urged to, develop and adopt rules, regulations, and procedures that would mandate that an e-textbook assigned as required or recommended reading in a course offered at the postsecondary educational institution comply with all of the requirements of subdivision (b).(1)For content licensed as proprietary copyright, the e-textbook shall be offered with pricing tiers that reflect consumer access rights
over periods of time. At a minimum, both a “rental” price and a “lifetime purchase” price shall be listed by the publisher, clearly noting consumer access to the e-textbook over periods of time.
(2)The e-textbook shall be offered with cloud storage, and shall be housed by copyright publishers for access by consumers.
(3)
(4)
(5)The publisher shall offer electronic subscriptions to online services relating to the e-textbook that are not bundled with the e-textbook, to enable students with a hardcopy version of the textbook to purchase these electronic subscriptions without also purchasing the e-textbook.
(1)“Cloud storage” means a model of networked online storage where data is stored in virtualized pools of storage that can be accessed through a Web service application programming interface (API) or through a Web-based user interface. Cloud storage access shall be consistent with purchased price tier, including indefinitely.
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(3)“Lifetime purchase” means a price that allows access to e-textbook material in perpetuity. A feature that is available at the time of purchase shall be available to the consumer indefinitely.
(4)
(5)“Rental” means a price that allows access to an e-textbook for an explicit, set amount of time, with the expiration date for the e-textbook clearly noted to the consumer.