Digital Textbooks Get a Slow Start
A pilot program that lets college students buy digital textbooks from their campus bookstores has gotten off to a slow start. But the company that runs the project says the early returns show at the very least that students are interested in e-books.
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Digital Textbooks Struggle to Gain a Foothold on Campus
E-books are something that have been around for a long time and their time may never come. The key thing in getting students to use this sort of thing is to give it to them as a tool. Add the ability to remix the text, annotate it, share it, etc. If all an ebook does is give you some computer based version to read off the screen or print, then it is never going to get anywhere.
