By CONNOR GUYTON, the Reflector
Mississippi State University students were given a new option when purchasing their textbooks this semester: e-textbooks. Carsyn Byars, freshman English major, purchased one of her textbooks in e-book format from the Barnes & Noble campus booksellers website. “It was cheaper to get it as an e-textbook, and I already owned a Nook, so I bought it that way,” she said. When Byars went to her general psychology class on the first day and was told no electronic devices were allowed in the classroom, she said she was not sure what to do. “I asked my coworkers what I should do and one of them told me to just talk to Dr. (Tom) Carskadon about it, that if it was going to be a problem, he would help me fix it,” she said. Other students are opting for a time consuming, illegal but free method of obtaining their books in digital format. “We had iPads before e-books were really becoming popular,” one student said. “So we would buy the textbooks, scan every page onto our computer, save it as a PDF document and return the books.”
http://www.reflector-online.com/mobile/news/e-reader-textbooks-now-available-1.2665074
Share on Facebook