Another "end of the textbook" article

This one’s a little different in that the university buys e-readers for students, downloads the texts, and then charges students a “course materials fee” instead of asking students to buy textbooks on their own. It’s sort of an electronic version of what we historically did with the Advance program (serving as the middleman to ensure textbook delivery). Then again, we just moved away from this “university delivered content” approach in Advance.

http://chronicle.com/article/The-End-of-the-Textbook-as-We/125044/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en