Who are the consumers of textbooks? And how do you define a consumer? We had this discussion recently on the podcast Real Tech for Real
Tag: textbooks
Ubiquity or Proprietary?
As you may know, I am looking forward to the day when our “textbooks” will be digital and students can purchase them at a fraction of what they pay
The Problem of Pricing: Digital Textbooks are NOT cheap!
I have written extensively [1. Â See: Digital Book Readers (Kindle?) in Academia (an outline of thoughts), Digital Textbooks: Fairness in Pricing after DRM is Hacked,
Digital Education Resources: What price, adoption?
Access to the homework tool (included in the purchase of a NEW textbook) would cost students $10 if they chose to instead by a book used. Of course, that would only give them access to the homework assignments. There was an additional fee ($30 I believe) if they wanted to have the “PLUS” features, including the hyperlinking to the appropriate section of the text.
