sw 18

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.