60 children in a school in Italy are participating in an experiment in which they are going paperless. All textbooks are replaced with computers for one year. Apparently this represents a huge cost savings for the school. The textbooks cost $700 a year, but the computers less than $400. (I guess that the e-textbooks are free then?)
Goodluck to them! I hope it goes well, although, I reckon they’ll need to take special writing classes now too. 🙂
I wrote an article yesterday on my blog about this very topic (electronic reading devices replacing textbooks in school classrooms):
http://digitaldocuments.debenu.com/2008/10/07/electronic-readers-will-replace-paper-textbooks/