Digital Textbooks: New Frontier?

Are digital textbooks going to replace traditional textbooks? So far, it seems that paper is here to stay but maybe there will be a transition in the long term. At Skoolboy, we were thinking about including a category just for electronic textbooks. Electronic textbooks are good but they require having a computer or some sort of device to open the file and read it. It is more convenient to use electronic text since you do not have to carry it around. The reason why Electronic textbooks have not become mainstream has to do with file sharing and the textbook or book industry would suffer if all books went digital because that would lead to piracy and people would get their textbooks for free on some BitTorrent file sharing website. Education should be free but that's not how big business sees it. Regardless, we will continue to monitor the situation and continue to make future posts about this topic. In the meantime, here is a website that offers electronic text for textbooks.

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