Thursday, April 26, 2012

Is this the end of the printed textbook?

Tom Wilkie reports back on discussions about e-textbooks at the London Book Fair

1 comment:

Eileen Shepherd said...

This is interesting :"Among the transitional students, the primary motivations for trying e-textbooks were, first, convenience and portability; and secondly, that they were less expensive. However, he said, ‘price disappears as a relevant factor’ among the more experienced group."

I was speaking to a RU physics student last week who has all his textbooks on his I iPad (except for a German one). I