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Originally Posted by Becky21
I think using a Kindle instead of regular textbooks would be a great idea. Im currently in college and am required to carry 6 textbooks to one class..which is a hassle and not to mention i spent close to 250$ for 2 of those books so using a Kindle would help save money and would be much easier to carry around.
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Speaking as a textbook author myself, I think it may be a little optimistic to expect large cost savings from electronic textbooks. The reason they are so expensive is that they are inherently costly to produce, and have
very low sales (10,000 sales for a textbook would be regarded as a success - for a fiction book it would be a dismal failure). You might, perhaps, save $10 on the cost of printing, but that's about it; all the other costs are still there.
There would be a gain in convenience for the user, in terms of not having to carry around a bag of heavy books, but I don't think you could expect to save a lot of money.