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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
This is why many of us suspect that the youth market will be pushed into e-books through some kind of digital textbook program, to save them the weight and expense of all those textbooks throughout their school years.
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Although ebooks need to be more searchable and browsable before this will really work, feel very strongly that every kid should be given an ebook reader in first grade, and not have to carry any other books around with him though high school at least. I'm not sure it will save expense, as textbook publishers, even of etextbooks, will want to be paid, but it will sure reduce the bulk of "stuff" a student needs to carry around. Although I believe it is a utopic model, it clearly and unfortunately isn't going to happen any time soon.