What with the PeeWee PC, Disney netbook, and Dell Latitude 2100 on the market, netbooks have been taking a larger and larger role in schools. It seems to follow that a move from paper to digital texts would allow schools to save a lot of money. So when will schools make the switch?
One blogger over at Blorge noted that that switch could be expensive but effective on the long run. It would require a large investment in e-readers, like those offered by Pixel Qi. Here's how Blorge sees the transition going:
"They will have to start with the students who already have computers, then take the money saved on textbooks from them and funnel that into helping lower income students with the purchase of some sort of e-Textbook reader, a laptop or even something as small as a Netbook."
It would be even easier to implement these type of plans in schools which already have netbook plans, such as the Indiana schools of the ESVC.
Check out the full article here for more on the transition to electronic texts.
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