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Originally Posted by random50
Here's a related link about the University of Texas' attempt at using e-books:
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/07/ut
One striking stat - out of the potential 15,000 sales on the courses for which they offer ebooks, they sold a grand total of 55! |
Yes, but look at the options open to students. Print it out or on their computer. No readers, or ability to annotate.
And the price range they were talking about was 40-50% of the cost of the books.
I Don't know about you, but I could usually get back 50-70% of the cost if I resold a book, and there were no restrictions on its use. I could chose to keep it or 3 or 4 of us could share the book and the cost.
So I would say it was more a failure of the Process then the failure of e-books.