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Five Good Reasons to Say Goodbye to Your Textbooks

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 20:33
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E-textbooks have become the new black in the education world. Though not many people have replaced their good old textbooks with these virtual text books educationalists and industry insiders strongly believe that these electronic books are about to erupt in popularity within coming few years. With more and more e-colleges are becoming prominent in the US education scenario, it can be well anticipated that these books will soon replace their forefathers in the sphere of higher learning, especially distance higher learning. Here below are five good reasons to say goodbye to your old books.

  1. These books are easy to obtain. Purchasing and downloading an e-book is all a matter of minutes. On the other hand, there are hundreds of online resources including Google Books where you can find a plethora of free e-books. Compare this with the entire lengthy process of ordering a book online and getting it delivered at doorstep, which is tediously protracted a procedure.
  2. E-books can be updated and upgraded regularly as well. Information keeps changing and the books we read must be updated with relevant and up-to-date information, which comes quite easy with the e-books.
  3. E-book publishers set afloat hundreds of attractive offers for attracting the prospective buyers as because it is a relatively new trend. This way, you can avail coupon codes, movie tickets, free eBooks and much more by purchasing and downloading an eBook from any trusted dealer.
  4. E-books are easy to store. Instead of stacking up piles of books, you can gradually build and enrich a digital library. You can access digital libraries of others as well as they can also access the books stored in your digital library and download them as well. Sharing is fun. This is why many colleges that offer online degrees encourage the use of e-books.
  5. E-books are environment friendly as well. For producing papers, trees need to be cut, which is immaterial for eBooks. We can stop excessive deforestation by taking resort to the virtual equivalents of the books that we have traditionally used.  You can espouse worldwide pro-environment campaigns this way.

Want to make eBooks your best pals for studying? The best way is to enroll for online degree programs. These programs are now offered by leading US colleges and universities.



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