re: #135 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Th downside of electronic textbooks would be each state could custom-order its own version, which would allow the nutjobs in Texas and elsewhere to foist nonsense on their schoolchildren.

The downside of electronic textbooks is that the publisher (or somebody hacking the publisher) could evaporate every single copy overnight. Do you not remember when Amazon took back everyone’s “1984” and “Animal Farm”?

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