Digital College Textbooks
Digital textbooks to account for 1 in 5 textbook sales in 2014
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College Textbooks,
eBooks,
eReaders,
Students,
Textbooks
As every college student knows, textbooks cost a fortune. There are websites that charge less, of course, but even that model is becoming old school. Wallet Pop writes about the digital textbook market and the likelihood that prices will be a lot cheaper than what you're paying now.
"A new study of digital textbook adoption estimates that in five short years the adoption rate will be high enough to disrupt the traditional textbook market. 2014 is the first year that Xplana, a social learning platform, estimates the sales of digital textbooks will reach a "tipping point" that leads to a shakeup in the publishing model and gives free open learning platforms a better chance at widespread adoption.The study, which looked at information from several private surveys and studies concluded that in five years the sales of digital textbooks will reach 18% to 20% of total new textbook sales; a dramatic rise from the current digital textbook share of .5%..."
