One of the latest changes in college culture is the availability of digital textbooks, which was underscored when Amazon unveiled its new rental platform last month. The promise is that you can save up to 80% with the ephemeral versions of those oft-cumbersome and expensive paper volumes.Since money talks for most shoppers, many parents may be susceptible to the desires of their technologically savvy student to forgo physical books and buy an eBook reader or tablet instead, to make use of this digital ingenuity. But are digital textbooks living up the money-saving hype?
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Thrifty Thinking: Digital Textbooks
Dealnews.com has an article about digital textbooks that you can read here. An excerpt:
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