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Students Face New Textbook Picks: Rent vs. Buy, Print vs. E-book

USA Today

With another summer ending, the time has come to ask the perennial question: Could this be the year higher education finally embraces the e-book? Some think that developments since the last buying cycle, particularly the arrival of Apple's iPad computing tablet, might foreshadow an especially good year for electronic texts.

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