The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has announced recently a digital textbook program (he even wrote an editorial for the Mercury News about it). According to the governor, the state spent $350 million in schoolbooks last year, and the move to digital textbooks could help to reduce this number.
I have been using the example of school books a lot in this blog. I hope California’s government get it right. Althought, if this project is not going to be a completaly Free Libre Open initiative, may be a good start for a new business model in the academic press world.
