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Originally Posted by Joonbug1
As for converting all the textbooks to digital - why have it need to be exclusively one or the other? Why can't they have both? What if there's a national power surge or something and all their data goes kaput?
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My guess is that it has to do with printing costs and distribution. If the demand for paper becomes lower, the costs will increase, and nobody wants to pay more for paper textbooks.
And if there is a national power surge they will have bigger problems to worry about, and in wouldn't affect unconnected devices (anything mobile), so anything on those is safe, plus anything that is in cloud storage would be safely stored in other countries as well.