Laptop computers are issued to all students and replace traditional textbooks as a primary learning resource.
"Because the education schools feel they must train new teachers for the schools they are going to, ones that rely on traditional textbooks."
He noted that the content of courses has been changing more rapidly than in the past, and traditional textbooks have not kept pace.
(For a traditional textbook, the total production cost is about 12 cents a page.)
Do you believe there is a future for eTexts to replace, or at least augment, traditional textbooks?
Read documents and study from text sources, just like using a traditional textbook.
Greek and French classes make use of supplemental materials that are more like traditional textbooks.
FlexBooks are designed to overcome some of the limitations of traditional textbooks.
Open textbooks increasingly are seen as an affordable alternative to traditional textbooks in both K-12 and higher education.
In one common bidding situation, the experts take action on hands that traditional textbooks would recommend passing.