RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Jan 19, 2012 13:38:56 GMT -5
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Lamron
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Post by Lamron on Jan 19, 2012 20:00:13 GMT -5
The publishers of outrageously priced college textbooks will never allow this. They can charge whatever they want now because the students are forced to buy the mandatory books, and there's no way to get around actually buying the physical book. The new E-Book textbook will have to be very reasonably priced or students won't even bother buying them at all. If you could save yourself $500+ per year by copying a few files, most people would probably do it.
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RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Jan 22, 2012 18:37:23 GMT -5
A private Christian School in my town (where my oldest graduated high school) has already announced they're switching from textbooks to iPad with this very semester. They estimate that books cost the students $750 a year, but with the iPad it will be only $500 a year. I don't know the details, whether that's the book cost beyond the iPad cost (?$400-600), or they're going to distribute the ebooks they need them to have, etc., but they're going to do it. They mainly cite how convenient it will be, and no more books to lug around.
Publishers might not like it, but it is the coming thing, just as records makers hated to see vinyl and CD sales go down in lieu of cheaper electronic format recordings, so it will happen, probably either as rentals with expiration licenses for the books, or as full textbooks for about 1/2 the printed cost (based on mp3 vs. cd costs).
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