but they're saying 'this is paragraph by paragraph equivalent' and the analogy is 'but the cpu is from the same component manufacturer and the closest we have, the graphics card ditto, the cdrom ditto,' etc etc, with the form factor as close as 'dell' (in the analogy) can get it. same screen size and resolution, different manufacturer 'dell' uses. I think component-by-component matching is quite an analogy to what the publisher claims is going on here. The final difference (the 'design' of the software and the form factor) might be one the buyer doesn't care about enough to justify the price difference. The final 'design' in this case is having one author cohesively write the textbook (style and tone). In this case the students might not care enough to justify the price difference, and will take 'components' matched chapter by chapter from all over the web...
the 'dell' analogy is even worse if you mean 'reuse' as it's literally the same or equivalent component (the very same or a functionally equivalent a 15 inch screen at such and such resolution). I mean, in the analogy they're by the same suppliers!
the point is that you are saying 'put in the name of the textbook" and we'll try to get as close as possible chapter-by-chapter (component by compoinent) obviously without quite hitting the actual original autho's style? Isn't this what's being claimed?
the 'dell' analogy is even worse if you mean 'reuse' as it's literally the same or equivalent component (the very same or a functionally equivalent a 15 inch screen at such and such resolution). I mean, in the analogy they're by the same suppliers!
the point is that you are saying 'put in the name of the textbook" and we'll try to get as close as possible chapter-by-chapter (component by compoinent) obviously without quite hitting the actual original autho's style? Isn't this what's being claimed?