Digital Textbooks Slow to Catch On
By NATALIA RACHLIN, New York Times
While autobiographies and murder mysteries, romance novels and self-help books have enjoyed a smooth transition from print to pixels, the college textbook has met resistance in its digital form. Although sites like CourseSmart , a collective effort among the five biggest American academic publishers to offer digital content, have made e-textbooks widely available at prices that are as much as 60 percent lower than the print editions, sales have yet to catch up; e-textbooks made up only 2.8 percent of total U.S. textbook sales in 2010, according to the National Association of College Stores.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/business/media/06iht-EDUCSIDE06.html?_r=1
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