Kyle.Gross
eng12
11/30/12
well
online textbook are good er than textbook
A few
weeks back Amazon announced their digital textbook rental program.
You can probably recall how many bloggers wrote about how this new
program would save students so much money. I didn’t say anything at
the time, but I was reading the posts from all the major tech blogs
and I was wondering why I was the only who remembered my college
years. I’d always gotten a better deal than offered by the
high schools, digital bookstores, or anyone. Most all of the articles
on renting and buying digital textbooks looked at the cost as it
compares to the retail price.
Hah. I very rarely paid retail for my textbooks. To put it simply,
the best option for students is to buy a used paper copy in good
condition and then sell it again.
If you buy a paper textbook you can often times get a much better
deal because you can sell it again and recoup at least part of the
cost.
Electronic books have changed the way many people read for
pleasure now online textbooks are changing the way some students
learn and some teachers.
More than one hundred seventy-five thousand students attend the
public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Last
year, the school system used digital books in fifteen schools. This
school year, middle schools and high schools changed from printed to
electronic textbooks in their social studies classes.