Oh please. The overpriced, overweight textbook system is a dinosaur that needs to die.
Why?
Oh. you’re one of those people who think that electronic text is cheaper.
No. It is not.
“Oh please. The overpriced, overweight textbook system is a dinosaur that needs to die.”
So you’re DEFENDING their end-around, their threat of criminal prosecution for disclosing their materials (i.e., the last time I checked, no one had a sign a non-disclosure contract to use a textbook in a classroom), and the rest of what they’re doing.
Why are you even on this site?
Do you even understand what CSCOPE is? Have you read the article - or anything - about CSCOPE?
And when your computer dies or the power goes out, your back up is....?
I like real books, but the ones now are indeed overpriced and overweight. They are significantly heavier than when I was a kid, maybe because they use thicker paper to accommodate more color pictures?
They could also stand some editing. My son’s math book said that the square root of -25 was -5, for example.
The social studies books tend to have a section in each chapter that is fluff— some tie-in to current life to make it “relevant” that never appears on the test and the student does not want to read for fun. The book could weigh noticeably less if this were omitted.
You're absolutely right, but that's not what this article is about.