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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Think about this: If every parent in the country had signed petitions demanding e-book versions of textbooks, or they would not be purchased by their school systems (thanks to appropriate lobbying of their PTA branches), I think the text publishers would have taken significant steps to provide e-books (and probably the readers) by now.
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Steve, I'd like to see it, I really would. Think of the waste space in schools for lockers, for example, as well as the ergonomics for the kids. But unless you can figure out how to convince the textbook buying boards of California, Texas, and New York to buy e-book, and ebook only, I don't see how we can get the publisher's attention. (Remember, at high school (and lower), books are bought by the state, not the individual or even the school district.)