Comment I kinda' get it ... (Score 1) 177
I think it really comes down to $200 + the cost of e-(text)books a year per student versus the price of buying dead tree textbooks.
I'm not sure if we're there yet, economically. But a couple things come to mind. First, my grade 7 student carts home about 12 pounds' worth of textbooks every night. 1 tablet v. those books? I'm down with that. Second, I've heard speculation that e-books would give publishers and school districts more power when it comes to keeping creationism out of non-hillbilly states -- the cost of creating and distributing separate editions (say, 1 right edition and 1 for Texas) would plummet.
I'm also reminded that I came from a relatively poor school board. My high school physics and chemistry texts were 20 and 15 years old respectively. The chemistry book was not horrible. But the physics text, from the mid 60s, missed out on a little development called The Standard Model of Particle Physics ... by a decade.
I'm not sure if we're there yet, economically. But a couple things come to mind. First, my grade 7 student carts home about 12 pounds' worth of textbooks every night. 1 tablet v. those books? I'm down with that. Second, I've heard speculation that e-books would give publishers and school districts more power when it comes to keeping creationism out of non-hillbilly states -- the cost of creating and distributing separate editions (say, 1 right edition and 1 for Texas) would plummet.
I'm also reminded that I came from a relatively poor school board. My high school physics and chemistry texts were 20 and 15 years old respectively. The chemistry book was not horrible. But the physics text, from the mid 60s, missed out on a little development called The Standard Model of Particle Physics
