Others say the change will be too costly, requiring new textbooks and different kinds of training for teachers.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

We discussed the California digital textbook program as well as the use of digital textbooks in general.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The average college student in America spent an estimated seven hundred dollars on textbooks last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Online versions are now available for many of the most popular college textbooks.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Also,there is the cost to train teachers to use digital textbooks effectively.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

In all,almost half the students said they still liked physical textbooks better.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

E-textbooks can cost half the price of a new print textbook.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

California cannot require schools to use the digital textbooks.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The initiative assists more than eight million children, and includes giving them greater access to textbooks and equipment.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

He said girls in one Dakar school explained to him some of the daily challenges they face, such as the lack of bathrooms in the school, bullying from boys, and a lack of textbooks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

On Sunday,Russian nationalists Orange Revolution. in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, threw Ukrainian history textbooks into boxes at the foot of a local monument to Russian empress Catherine the Great.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"I'd have to say that equally on both sides of the coin, my successes with regards to my science are the discovery of the genetic basis of a number of different human skin diseases, using very unconventional approaches, which are now approaches in medical textbooks, but at the time, they were very unconventional."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29