Baroudi is also encouraging faculty to use available e-textbooks, which he is confident will be much more widely available within a year or two.

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You can even create your own e-textbooks.

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Studies have shown that more than half of students do still prefer physical textbooks to e-books.

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The original idea was to use the iPads as e-readers, in place of traditional textbooks.

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Publishers make very high gross margins on traditional textbooks, and since e-books radically reduce the cost of distribution and printing, one would expect prices to drop substantially for digital offerings.

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Meanwhile, schools and colleges have used money originally set aside for paper textbooks to buy tablets, e-books and apps.

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As more students come to campus with Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers, the more efficient consumption of college textbooks is likely to grow rapidly.

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The e-textbook software allows Galaxy Note 10.1 users to download thousands of interactive textbooks.

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