Can Digital Textbooks Truly Replace the Print Kind? - Techland.com
The pain points of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters they’re heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing in at a burdensome 3.6 pounds. They’re also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student’s limited budget, typically costing of hundreds of dollars every semester.
But the worst part is that print versions of textbooks are constantly undergoing microscopic revisions. Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable. For students, it means they’re basically stuck with a four pound paperweight that they can’t sell back (and even if they can, it’s for a fraction of the cost).