One of the problems you will face is forcing the professors
to give up the revenue stream they get when they a student buys a copy of text book they have an interest
in. Another problem will come from various relationships
that exist between the administrators and publishers.
It would not surprise me to learn that a publisher might
pay someone off to be the exclusive "provider" of books
much in the way vendors pay for the rights to sell to
the students.
As to the "problem" of every student needing a computer,
the costs of a net book is less than the cost of a typical
semesters worth of textbooks.
The real questions will be with regards to keeping books
up to date, preventing people from rewriting/altering
histories, having some people claim the writing violates
their copyrights, and so forth.
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