Professors can create their own eBooks Professors love to make you buy that 100-page supplemental printout. If they created all this extra material with whatever program they wanted, and then turned it into Adobe PDFs, we could read, copy and paste, and even print the material at home instead of trucking to Kinko's and paying even more cash. Just like other eBooks, the course packs could include links to the Net and Flash animations. We must hound the publishers to get cranking on the eTextbook. It'd be like owning one book that holds the entire contents of the campus library.
Publishers can create permissions with the book, like no printing or no copying to a disk.
The publisher can make the eBook readable for a certain amount of time and then have it expire. And since the publishers ultimately wouldn't have to produce as many print copies, they'd save a ton of money. You can help. Join me in convincing publishers to become pioneers of the eTextbooks movement. Please create them.