[sassanik]

I think that most text book publishers are probably not really excited about ebooks. Currently they do have a captive audience and they come out with new editions and stop printing old ones forcing students to buy new editions and not the cheaper older ones that are used.

Once the book is in an electronic copy, its public, out there. If the publishers are still wanting to jerk around their students with high prices and new editions all the time they are going to run into piracy problems.

I could be wrong and maybe they will slow down the new edition thing, but I feel that text book publishers have been being greedy.

I wonder how the ebook readers worked out in the literature classes? It seems to me that would be one of the first area's to adopt ebooks.

I do agree that they need some way of book marking pages, and an easy way to go from the index to specific chapters. Teachers will probably need to stop using page numbers as much, as what font style and size you are using can significantly change the amount of pages in a book.

It is good that schools are taking these steps to try and figure things out in regards to the new technology.

Amy