Colleges May Start Forcing Switch To eTextbooks

An anonymous reader writes "Here's the new approach under consideration by college leaders and textbook manufacturers: 'Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).' That may be 'the best way to control skyrocketing costs and may actually save the textbook industry from digital piracy,' proponents claim."

Comments

Re:Victom of eTextbook

[khallow]

and can't spell it is a moron

No, you mean a moran.

Re:Students will complain

[LoudMusic]

Absolutely serious when I say this, my college Fraternity used pledges to do just that (probably still do).

All the guys taking a given class would throw in a few bucks for one copy of the text, then as if by magic we would receive an electronic version.

Terrible copyright infringement, pyramid scheming, slavery, hazing, and all that. But it was so convenient.

You mean righteous distribution of knowledge?

Re:Students will complain

[Greyfox]

At my college we'd buy our books for $300 each, and at the end of the semester our professors would bludgeon us into unconsciousness with them! And we were 'appy to 'ave it that way!