"IN A DIGITAL AGE, STUDENTS STILL CLING TO PAPER TEXTBOOKS"

"They text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on laptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks — and loving it." Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/nyregion/20textbooks.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

Students certainly want their textbooks to cost less; the current and long-standing pricing scheme for textbooks seems like nothing less than price-gouging. But this doesn't mean that they want them in electronic form, and for a number of good reasons, as this article discusses.