Digital Textbooks Struggle to Gain a Foothold on Campus
Published by Chronicle of Higher Education November 1st, 2005 in Wired CampusA pilot program that lets college students buy digital textbooks from their campus bookstores has gotten off to a slow start. But the company that runs the project says the early returns show at the very least that students are interested in e-books.
MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc., has released sales data from 10 colleges that started offering digital textbooks through the company’s Web site this fall. According to the company, e-books now account for 5.7% of the textbook sales at those institutions.
For more details on the digital-textbook project, see an article from The Chronicle by Andrea Foster.
Digital Textbooks Struggle to Gain a Foothold on Campus
Published by Chronicle of Higher Education November 1st, 2005 in UncategorizedA pilot program that lets college students buy digital textbooks from their campus bookstores has gotten off to a slow start. But the company that runs the project says the early returns show at the very least that students are interested in e-books.
MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc., has released sales data from 10 colleges that started offering digital textbooks through the company’s Web site this fall. According to the company, e-books now account for 5.7% of the textbook sales at those institutions.
For more details on the digital-textbook project, see an article from The Chronicle by Andrea Foster.
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