{"id":4833,"date":"2010-02-23T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2010-02-23T10:28:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:28:41","slug":"the-student-body-not-ready-for-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4833","title":{"rendered":"The Student Body Not Ready for eBooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> as it applies to students and small publishers was brought to my attention by a couple of small\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0publishers of\u00c2\u00a0 textbooks responding to my post <strong><a title=\"Apple, DRM and the Pirates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4766\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;Apple iPad Will Use DRM\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Ahoy eBook Pirates! Come and get \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem!&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> (Okay, maybe the title&#8217;s a bit provocative&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>It has been theorized that schools and students would provide the perfect proving ground for the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>. <strong>(Young people + technology =\u00c2\u00a0adoption.)<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not so simple. Turns out there is much more to the story. We&#8217;ve got a hesitant student body and textbook publishers with everything to lose\u00c2\u00a0releasing digital (easily shared) textbooks to a limited\u00c2\u00a0target audience. <strong>(Young people + knowledge of technology = wait for the cheaper next-generation of eBook Readers.) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more about it <strong><a title=\"eBooks and Students not mixing?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.istockanalyst.com\/article\/viewiStockNews\/articleid\/3883143\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> at <strong>iStockAnalyst.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story is early adopters are not the majority, and the technology still\u00c2\u00a0 needs time to evolve before it will be embraced by the tech-savvy mainstream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eBook Revolution as it applies to students and small publishers was brought to my attention by a couple of small\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0publishers of\u00c2\u00a0 textbooks responding to my post &#8220;Apple iPad Will Use DRM\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Ahoy eBook Pirates! Come and get \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem!&#8221; (Okay, maybe the title&#8217;s a bit provocative&#8230;) It has been theorized that schools and students would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4833\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}