E-Books

E- Books
The Wired Campus blog had an interesting article about a professor who tried to test e-book readers for his class.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Professor-Faces-Obstacles-in/19415/

The first problem he ran into was that the publishing company of the text he used would not provide a digital copy. The author of the article believes that e-books will not take off until “a standard will need to emerge, so that digital formats do not feel like extra homework for professors and students.”
The comments on the article were interesting. One noted that there also needs to be a business model “that includes the ability to purchase and resell the texts..”