Definitely - will lighten the backpack load for students if they can load all textbooks onto one Kindle (or similar device).
It will absolutley destroy the used book market. If I didn’t sell my textbooks at the end of the year, I wouldn’t have been able to buy gas to get home and drink until my first paycheck from the summer job came in.
Seriously, this technology will revolutionize the publishing business. The price for textbook will probably not drop a lot and the after market is eliminated; so the textbook publishers will gain a great margin enhancement.