Jam Side Down: How the Kindle Helps Destroy Textbooks

Textbooks are on their way out of the schoolhouse door. Books on the shelf are probably not too far behind, but I still love the feel and smell of a good book. The entire article is definitely worth reading.

Jam Side Down: How the Kindle Helps Destroy Textbooks
Keep encyclopedias in mind when you consider the future of textbooks. Like encyclopedias, textbooks will be quickly weakened by digital media and then destroyed altogether by open source content. College textbooks as we now know them will cease to exist K-12 textbooks will take a lot longer, since their purchase is usually mandated by state school boards.