"There's obviously opposition (to switching to totally computerized material), but there's always opposition to change," Perry said. He said the switch would have to be done cost effectively and that he didn't yet know whether such a move would save money. The governor said he wants to explore the proposal when the Legislature meets in 2011.>>>.......
Disclosure: I disagree with Perry on some issues, but I am skeptical about all the GOP characters, including Palin.
It’s ironic that that the media caricatures Perry as an ignorant yahoo (as in Gulliver’s Travel’s). The transition from paper books to electronic books is as natural and inevitable as the transition from books hand written by teams of scribes to the printing press. And if academics try to protect their paper textbook business, so much for their image as “enlightened.”