Ditch the textbook, baby

Some professors are ditching the textbooks. Excellent idea. I did so at every opportunity. Sometimes the powers-that-be insisted on a textbook in the bookstore, etc., but I hated it and told students that they could forget the textbook if they wanted to and they didn't have to buy it. Most textbooks are just left-wing crap.

The ebook revolution on campus

Ann Althouse: Textbook publisher are making a transition to ebooks. Why? They don't make any money on used textbooks, and students won't be able to buy them any more. Schools like ebooks because they will keep the price lower. Of course that may not turn out to be true. It seems to me that ebooks costs more than they should given that they use no paper or ink, no transportation to books stores, etc.

The ebook thing is going to be a major revolution on college and university campuses. See the NYT article here.

The end of the college textbook as we know it may be drawing near. I predict they will be electronic.