Textbooks Taking A Big Leap To Digital

e-books and e-libraries are getting more common among students but the textbooks which expires after every semester were rare to be electronic. Students usually prefer to have hard copy of such book.

But this year has shown different trend. According to the Student Monitor, a private student market research company based in New Jersey, about 5% of all textbooks acquired in the autumn in the United States were digital textbooks. That is more than double the 2.1% of the spring semester.

Simba Information, a research company specializing in publishing, estimates that electronic textbooks will generate $267.3 million this year in sales in the United States. That is a rise of 44.3% over last year. The American Association of Publishers estimates that the college textbooks industry generated a total of $4.58 billion in sales last year.