Will digital textbooks put college bookstores out of business?

By Stefanie Botelho. In the more than $10 billion dollar college textbook industry, students are captive consumers. Each semester during syllabus week, they face the infuriating task of spending hundreds of dollars on material they will never look at again after just a few months. The reason textbooks are so expensive? In a nutshell: Because they can be, and in some cases, because they need to be. More...