An experimental business model for delivering e-textbooks is expanding, with some adjustments, to 26 colleges and universities this fall. The institutions will participate in a pilot project in which they will buy digital course materials in bulk from publishers to reduce costs for students, and the project’s leaders say they are dealing with obstacles faced in an earlier test of the approach.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/bulk-purchasing-e-textbook-experiment-expands-to-more-colleges/39598
