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Old 01-23-2012, 10:47 AM   #71
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
It's also my understanding that the books will be tied to individual iPads, which means that (a) students can't buy/bring their own (else the school would lose the book permanently when they graduated) and (b) if an iPad is damaged, the book license is lost.
Of course they'll all be DRM'd! How else could publishers of $15 textbooks *possibly* make money? And why would anyone want to print sections of a textbook, or copy & paste the text into a report, or read sections of it on an e-ink screen instead?

You're just trying to hold back The Future.
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