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[guitarcries]

Arnold Schwartznegger to Scrap Textbooks for E-Books

This totally reads like an Onion article. Especially: "Holding up four large books he joked: 'I can use these for the curls,' in a nod to his bodybuilding days before he became one of Hollywood's biggest stars."

Comments

[misc_negro]

This is really cool

[guitarcries]

Hehe, interesting ideas. I hadn't thought about it too much. I would figure it would be cheaper for them in the long run, but maybe not immediately.

[misc_negro]

yeah, i think it would be hard to get a manufacturer to not really jack that price up. Thats why I thought about advertising. BUT im not the person to make those decisions and this is also why I dont work in government. I would want to just kick people until they understood me.

[guitarcries]

I can understand the impulse.

I dunno if advertising would work. People would balk at that idea... you never see ads in regular textbooks.

[__bin]

lol. poor arnie. nobody will ever take him seriously.

the idea is great, but if they're using handhead devises in place of textbooks then you have to wonder how well the kids are going to take care of them, and how often they'll need to be replaced. i remember how poorly i treated my textbooks when i was a kid!

[guitarcries]

That's what I was thinking. They'd have to make them indestructable.

[schmi]

If he can execute it correctly, it would be a big leap forward. Of course, he has to ensure that the cost of textbooks in e-book format doesn't leap up to keep pace.