Seems like Apple and eBooks everywhere are trying to create yet another piece of technology to ram down our throats. Thankfully, piracy will probably drive the price down and force these corporate-folks to offer better deals — albeit sometime in the future. Can anyone say, planned obsolescence?
Give it a few years and the tablet will be the piece that clips into a laptop. Why is technology taking baby steps? There is so much opportunity in this industry and I feel like the iPad is some intermediary piece.
I have to agree that this iPad does not seem to be initially all that appealing. As a science major, I would no doubt prefer an actual textbook than a screen when trying to understand and note on difficult concepts. On the other hand, this way of learning may fair well in other subject areas. With that said, hopefully those students that are raised on this level of technological advancement will appreciate it.
I have looked for ebooks to use on my computer before. I have checked out several sites, the kindle site and coursesmart that they mentioned and i have yet to find a single one of my text books offered.
They all claim that thousands of schools are using their ebooks but until they offer books that i need I cant use it for my textbooks. Also I think that the ipad is a great idea, yes it is just a giant iphone but I still think it looks great but the issue with using for a book is that the battery will not last as long and the space is definitely an issue.
And no Flash support? I appreciate Apple being very restrictive to what runs on their machines, but no Flash is just silly. No camera? I would suggest that any e-reader fan would opt for the lower priced and more specialized for book reading tool than a gadget that is somewhat of an awkward hybrid of too many things selling for too much money.
What happens next semester when you are taking the advanced class and want to consult your text from last semester? Cool stuff. Lets just hope Apple opens their eyes and allows you to run more than a single program at a time. Leaving aside the issue of renting a text book for days hello — I still had a few text books bought in my first I still was regularly consultanting in my last year at college — does anyone else agree that the Kindle is now looking a tad expensive?
Particularly the DX. Check off the PDF textbook and click "Apply. Jen Cordwainer has been writing technology, business and entertainment articles for seven years. She has three years of experience working in enterprise technology.
Cordwainer has a bachelor's degree in English. Regardless of how old we are, we never stop learning. So why is this a problem? This textbook would have to be rebought every single year for every individual student. This price is almost double the per year cost for the paper textbook.
The frustrating part of this is that the cost for a digital product works out to be more than the cost of a paper textbook. Here we are in , and the discussion about e-textbooks has largely gone away.
I am not sure how I feel about this to be perfectly honest. On the one hand, I think that the cost of digital textbook books should be a lot less than paper textbooks.
You might be able to find a great deal on Amazon or someone giving away the textbook you need on Craigslist. The availability of eTextbooks should increase dramatically every year. Knowing where to buy eTextbooks is one of the biggest challenges to embracing digital books. Whether you want to buy physical textbooks or eTextbooks, we found that college bookstores consistently had the worst prices on textbooks.
Unless you need a textbook immediately, you should search for it online first before paying the high markup at your bookstore. Every little bit of saved cash counts, especially when your student loans have to pay for your books. Even though some eTextbooks can be hard to find, the financial benefits of investing in digital format will most likely pay off for students over the four years spent at college.
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