http://earthfirst.com/heavy-expensive-wasteful-college-textbooks-are-so-20th-century-why-aren%e2%80%99t-ebooks-more-readily-available-by-now/ A Sharp Eye -- With a Green Edge Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:43:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://earthfirst.com/heavy-expensive-wasteful-college-textbooks-are-so-20th-century-why-aren%e2%80%99t-ebooks-more-readily-available-by-now/comment-page-1/#comment-3704 jonathan landes Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:04:32 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=723#comment-3704 Right on! Does anyone want to brainstorm with me on this? If publishers want more sales, why don't they offer a CD of the text included with the textbook? Then students/consumers can pressure the buyers (professors?) to reject the publishers who fail to offer the CD. Or offer just the CD and save the huge expense of producing and shipping the textbook. Brief comments welcome. Right on!
Does anyone want to brainstorm with me on this?
If publishers want more sales, why don’t they offer a CD of the text included with the textbook? Then students/consumers can pressure the buyers (professors?) to reject the publishers who fail to offer the CD. Or offer just the CD and save the huge expense of producing and shipping the textbook.
Brief comments welcome.

]]> http://earthfirst.com/heavy-expensive-wasteful-college-textbooks-are-so-20th-century-why-aren%e2%80%99t-ebooks-more-readily-available-by-now/comment-page-1/#comment-3014 Sara Tanier Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:53:18 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=723#comment-3014 I totally agree with the expensive prices and the lack of effort for the environment. I normally shop at www.helpineedbooks.com it finds cheap used textbooks so I pay less. I also am not contributing to the new books, at least Im doing what I can. I've saved over 150 dollars using that site, but we definitely need to move to ebooks. That would be a joy I totally agree with the expensive prices and the lack of effort for the environment. I normally shop at http://www.helpineedbooks.com it finds cheap used textbooks so I pay less. I also am not contributing to the new books, at least Im doing what I can. I’ve saved over 150 dollars using that site, but we definitely need to move to ebooks. That would be a joy

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