When it does then electronic textbooks, for instance, will be compelling for every school child and student.

The system also meets the state's requirement that all textbooks, printed or electronic, cost $15 to $25 per student.

Plastic Logic 100 was an "electronic textbook" which was intended for educational use.

About half of textbooks are sold back to stores or to other students, the trade group reports, but electronic textbooks can't be resold.

No english or philosophy student is ever going to need deeply-interlinked, colour displays for electronic textbooks.

A $4 billion-a-year business cannot change fundamentally overnight; the shift from printed to electronic textbook will take years.

Despite the restrictions, the electronic textbooks don't cost significantly less than physical textbooks.

Around 1,000 electronic textbooks have been sent to schools in six regions, free of charge.

Chu's team designed it as an affordable electronic textbook for poor rural population.

Burger is a pioneer in rich, multimedia Internet lectures that, together with written material, form an electronic textbook'.