{"id":6125,"date":"2010-07-12T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2010-07-12T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:15:35","slug":"digital-textbooks-the-affordable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6125","title":{"rendered":"Digital Textbooks: The Affordable Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Daytona Beach News-Journal<\/em><\/strong> has an excellent <strong><a title=\"eBooks Rock for Students\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/news\/local\/east-volusia\/2010\/07\/11\/paperless-books-could-save-dsc-students-big-bucks.html\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a><\/strong> about the eBook Revolution&#8217;s impact on post-secondary education, suggesting students in the near future will be paying one-fifth the current text book\u00c2\u00a0costs. This welcome digital development comes at a time when traditional &#8216;paper&#8217; textbook costs are soaring to as much as <strong>$1,000<\/strong> per student per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daytona Beach News-Journal has an excellent story about the eBook Revolution&#8217;s impact on post-secondary education, suggesting students in the near future will be paying one-fifth the current text book\u00c2\u00a0costs. This welcome digital development comes at a time when traditional &#8216;paper&#8217; textbook costs are soaring to as much as $1,000 per student per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125"}],"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=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6130,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}