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I'm all for lowering the price of college books, however I hope that it ends being only an option to use the eBook version. Text books are the one type of books I would still be inclined to use the printed version of, if for no other reason than ease of making notes in the margin, highlighting, etc. Yes, you can do that with some readers, but not all, and the ones that let you do that are generally more expensive. Also, everyone learns in different ways so as opposed to forcing everyone to use the eBook it would be better if it were an option then students could choose what ever format worked best for them.
It seems that the legislators got into the same thought that a lot of other people have in that the eBooks will be less expensive just by nature of the fact that they are eBooks. Without opening up that can of worms again, is there any reason that this would hold true for text books?
Lastly, will they be able to "return" the eBooks like you can with pBooks? Will they mandate that they get the same 50% back on them?
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