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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I don't recall a shortage of reading material way back when I was in school.  |
Me neither, Penforhire, but my cousin is a schoolteacher in a mid-low income school district, and she and her fellow teachers have to search out and buy used textbooks every year to have enough for their students. It is a real issue for many these days, and the texts they do get are often old and out of date.
I'm not saying that eBooks are the near-term solution for them (or anyone), but the situation in today's classrooms isn't anything close to what it was when I was in school (where it was just a given that every student got all the books every year).
Hopefully the potential advantages of eBooks (updatable, portable, distributable, cost efficient) will one day help in the educational market. At least, that's my hope. Probably a ways off still.