The Secondary Cost Of Digital (textbooks)
joseph harris <[email protected]>
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[The suggestion, that e-textbooks on rental adds to dumbing down, is
inescapable. Education policies may need a rethink.]
The Secondary Cost Of Digital
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35698
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/26/experts_consider_whether_rise_of_e_textbooks_will_change_rental_market
'...Student PIRGs found that 70 percent of responding students had
decided against buying a textbook for a class because the textbook was
too expensive. Of those, 78 percent thought they would have performed
better in the class if they'd had a copy of their own....'
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