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Originally Posted by starrigger
Side note: One area where I might agree with the cynical view is in textbooks. Clearly an area where ebooks could be of enormous benefit to the user, the student. But my brother is a textbook author, and he says his publisher simply doesn't know what to do about it, and they are, indeed, running scared.
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That's truly a shame... they're going to leave it for someone else to figure out, then try to decide whether they can emulate it, or shut down. The scary part is, what kind of textbooks are we likely to get out of such an industry sea-change?