From Stateline:
“Digital textbooks have gotten a lot of ink in recent months. In January, Apple attracted attention when it announced its foray into the field with the iBook, a multimedia-rich textbook for the iPad produced by the biggest educational publishers and costing less than $15… For all the noise nationally, movement to digital has been slow at the state and district level. Digital textbooks still account for only a small fraction of overall textbook sales. Still, several states [including Indiana] have enacted changes in recent years to make it easier for districts to go digital and use free material in the classroom that’s available digitally.”
Read more at: stateline.org
