News: Textbooks Take a Big Leap
Amazon, which got its start selling books online,
announced this year that, for the first time, its digital books had
outsold paper books. This trend of going digital does not hold true for
all books: While many popular consumer books have successfully made the
switch into the new format, textbooks are still widely read on paper.
Textbooks are gaining, though, as publishers take advantage of the
popularity of tablets like the Kindle and iPad, expanding their
catalogues and offering products like rental digital books that expire
after a semester or two.
The potential for digital growth is leading publishers to experiment
with products that stretch the boundaries of traditional textbooks,
slowly turning away from static text and images toward a multimedia,
intuitive approach, publishers say.
“Textbooks as e-books ought to be seen as a stepping stone to the
future,” said Mark Majurey of Taylor & Francis, a textbook publisher
in Britain.
Via:
The New York Times
Yeah I agree with this news that Textbooks as e-books ought to be seen as a stepping stone to the future, many has excepted it but still there are so many people likes to read textbooks only and now a days many online bookstores also made very easy to Rent Textbooks Online with great offers, I think the consumer will go for the cheap one even in future.
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