Cost Advantages
A 2005 US Government Accountability Office report put the
average cost of textbooks at $900 per year for students at
four-year public colleges. The UK is not far behind with
students having to outlay significant sums just to obtain the
correct reading materials for their courses.
With tuition fees
textbooks - more than
outpacing inflation and
half of the core textbooks
student loans proving
used in colleges. Students
burdensome, the pressure
can download an ebook
on students is
to one computer or view
increasing yearly.
it online in exactly the
same way as you are
Digital Editions are a
viewing this publication.
timely intervention
because they can
It’s not just textbooks
replicate student
either. Learning materials
textbooks at vastly
of all descriptions are
reduced costs – there
costly to produce,
are no print, production
especially if they are
or distribution costs to
published in a not-
factor in. Textbooks and
for-profit capacity. By
learning materials can
transforming PDF’s
simply be transferred
into Digital Editions,
online into dynamic
teaching professionals can
page-turning formats and
bypass costly (and time
the web URL emailed to
consuming) printing and
students or saved to
publish straight onto
USB or DVD.
the web.
The idea of altering
textbook economics
is already being tried
by several textbook
publishers. One US
company sells digital
copies of about 6,200
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