Digital Textbooks Still Not As Popular As Print At University Of Rochester

Campus Times explains that cost, format and functionality are the reasons that students haven’t been embracing the new technology.

Here is more: “UR Bookstore manager Maria Ferrante noted that, despite the widespread availability of e-Textbooks, the digital forms of many textbooks are much less popular than the hardcover versions. In practice, students who purchase e-Textbooks generally only do so when the bookstore has run out of hard copies and the student is desperate for the material.