1) The price of textbooks is unlikely to fall (For starters Apple is going to want 30%)
2) You're not going to be able to sell your textbook when you have finished.
3) You can't chip in and buy a textbook between a few of you.
4) You can't borrow or lend a textbook from your friend
5) Nothing beats being able to flick from page to page in a textbook.
6) The screen quality, despite being all "retina" or some other bullcrap is nothing like as good as actual print edition.
7) A book doesn't require charging up.
8) I can use multiple books at any one time.
9) I can buy second hand books.
Tell me, what benefits are there for a consumer of educational textbooks. If you tell me "interactivity" I will hit you - hard.
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