E-textbooks: Six lessons one campus learned

 
 
Northwest Missouri State University was one of the the first public universities to deliver all of its textbooks electronically.

The university’s president saw it as a way to drastically cut costs, since e-books generally cost half the price of printed textbooks.

Then the university ran a pilot study and university officials learned some sobering lessons about electronic books.

To read the entire story, click the following link to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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