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I was in English major and probably 2/3 of my textbooks were pub domain stuff now available on the internet. The other 1/3 were modern authors not available. If they had ebooks then, I would have saved a ton of money!
That said, my recent experience with e-textbooks was less than inspiring. It had a print button, and that was it. No ability to save the file for off-line reading. No ability to cut and paste it, not for your own backup reference, not even to quote one line of text in a paper. I literally had to manually copy out sentences if I wanted to use them in my work. And for this, I paid $40! Total waste, and I will not choose the e-book option when I next take courses from the institution involved. If I can't read it off-line and I have to manually cut and paste to cite lines in my work, I may as well buy the print copy and have THEM do the printing!
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