Web not yet the answer to college-text costs | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/08/2010:
"Don't look yet for a groundswell toward digital books. According to the national Student Public Interest Research Groups, 75 percent of students still prefer print. 'The critical mass just isn't there yet,' said Bell, who added that it's also not clear whether students will buy the e-reading devices to make digital books more palatable.
CourseSmart, founded three years ago as a joint venture of five large college textbook publishers, hopes to change that. It offers about 9,000 book titles online at about 50 percent of the cost of print, said Frank Lyman, executive vice president.
Sales grew 400 percent from 2008 to 2009, he said, declining to release exact numbers.
'It is in the hundreds of thousands of students using it - not yet millions,' he said."
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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