It takes a huge amount of effort to write a book. It also takes a huge amount of a student’s time to read all those words. Wouldn’t it be nicer if we students had the option to buy just the important parts? We should be able to buy the outline with vital info rather than having to plow through a sea of words! Publishers should give us the option to buy powerpoint slides versions of the text information.
Our time is so scarce!
… So much material!
The methods that we use to learn new information really need to be updated. Publishers should be designing systems to help us, their customers, learn material for classes rather than making another 1000 pages of words in another new edition of a textbook.

That sounds great. Open access is important. Researchers having the ability to publish is really important, also. I often hear that accounting researchers have a hard time publishing. I find it baffling when people who do research struggle to get it published as so many individuals depend on new concepts generated from the research. Why keep the faucet cranked down so tightly on how much gets published? University professors desperately need to publish to develop their careers within their universities. Why not allow more articles, in general, to be published in the journals? It is confusing. Is it just old school thought that it has always been hard to get published in accounting journals, so it must continue to be very difficult?
The open access idea is food for thought. As consumers of articles, we might not get to use the type of material we need in our research of published papers. However, money to operate the journals needs to be raised, so everything cannot be free.
I hope your project goes well!