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The Real Failure
To me seems to be the publishers. They need to let go of their baseless fears and produce quality textbooks in an excepted ebook format (not just a pdf scan of the book). The Kindle DX and other ebook readers are quite capable of serving a students needs, but it is more about the content at this point rather then the hardware (IMHO)
I am going to law school right now and very few of my law textbooks are in ebook or even pdf format. Kaplan does have study guides for all my law classes which in paper format are $30 - $50 but are also in Kindle format are $10-$20 - I purchased them all (for my Kindle DX) - they are great reads, well formatted and in most instances replace my ridiculously drawn out reading of my paper hornbooks and case books.
I ahh have a friend you see..., who scans all his textbooks in but has told me that he would have been more than happy to avoid the expense and time to scan in the paper versions, so they can be read on his Kindle DX
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