Textbook Giant Houghton Mifflin Funding $100M Effort to Improve Digital Learning: How About Algebra on an iPad?

Anyone with kids nearing college age probably draws on their own memories (many of them awful no doubt) of buying large expensive textbooks and then needing to lug them around semester after semester. I’d like to think that college freshmen in the near future will have a much superior textbook experience. Yet, as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, textbooks, for the most part, are like textbooks from the 20th, 19th and even the centuries before that.