UO Spreads The Word On E-Textbook Appeal

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Greg Bolt: UO Spreads The Word On E-Textbook Appeal, Eugene Register-Guard September 27, 2005
Coverage of the sale of digital textbooks at the University of Oregon. Thus far, sales have been slow, partly because of the cost (though the article a bit misleadingly represents the cost as "well below the cost of a new paper text") and partly because of the DRM - the book can be copied to a computer only once. More...