For-profit online schools embrace e-textbooks

From USA Today: Campus libraries and e-reader manufacturers are betting on electronic learning materials to overtake traditional textbooks in the future, but very few students at traditional institutions are currently using e-textbooks, according to recent surveys. Not so in the world of for-profit online education. Institutions such as American Public University System and the University of Phoenix have for years strategically steered students toward e-textbooks in an attempt to shave costs and ensure a more reliable delivery method

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