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Well I'm Jacky Hood, Director of College Open Textbooks
and I'd like to talk about where open text books will be in about five years
Last summer Student PIRGs did a survey among college students and even the net
generation still prefers seventy five percent
paper bound text books that they can carry around with
them
i think we'll turn this completely upside down in five years
Five years from now twenty-five percent of students will want bound textbooks
and the main reason is that textbooks are moving on to portable media
and the students will be able to carry around their devices
like pat's
fancy smart telephones
and reader textbooks with full-color and excellent hyperlink king
from these devices
and this bodes well for open text books which are by and large digital text
spoil
so look forward to a future of fewer bam textbooks less weight backpacks
and more interactivity and textbooks