Many educators--as well as the feds and plenty of state governments--believe that the solution to high textbook costs lies with a shift to digital content.
But a pilot program at Daytona State College has shown shown the opposite. According to a report by the pilot's researchers, "during three of the project's four semesters, students enrolled in some of the e-text pilot sections paid only $1 less for rental of their e-texts than students who bought a printed book." Worse, these students couldn't sell their e-texts back to the campus bookstore like the owners of print books.
Campus Technology takes an in-depth look at the economics of textbooks and e-textbooks.
