This summer, eBay announced that it would no longer allow the sale of used teacher’s editions with homeschool curricula. The company asserted that such sales violated eBay’s fair use policies since the company had no way to verify whether the sellers/purchasers were, in fact, teachers.
The homeschooling community has been outraged.
But where there’s a niche there’s always someone willing to fill it. The latest entrant is the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), which just announced the launch of its Curriculum Market.
Excellent! Now I have a good reason to go hunting through the basement for all of the books we’d bought last year but don’t need anymore.
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September 29, 2006 at 11:37 pm
I’m pretty sure this is to prevent students from buying the book with all the answers. I know where you’er coming from, but I do think eBay has legitimate reasoning — they’re not out to get home schoolers….