Digital textbooks finally a viable, cheap textbook solution

Digital textbooks, or eTextbooks, have long been on the horizon of higher education, offering the promise of timely but cheap textbooks that could be carried on a single device. The debut of the iPad in April brought renewed interest in eTextbooks but the first efforts of publishers fell short in offering a usable alternative to the hard-copy textbook. While digital textbook adoption is still expected to be low until 2014, a new version of the CourseSmart iPad app provides one of the first viable eTextbook options.