![]() The escalating price of print textbooks, the poor economy, and advances in electonic reading devices have all combined to foster a textbook revolution. Textbooks have been made available in electronic form for some time now. A significant limitation has been the inability of e-book devices to display the color illustrations, videos, and Web-linked supplements that publishers increasingly provide with their print textbooks. This limitation may soon be a thing of the past. Coming soon is a two-screen device called the eDGe, scheduled to be released in February. The two screens open like a book. The left screen is a standard e-book screen, while the right screen is an LCD screen that contains a virtual keyboard, an audio recorder, and a video camera. The dual screens are linked by a central processor. A black and white illustration on the standard left screen display can be moved in full color to the right screen. A link on the left screen can be opened in color on the right screen. There will certainly be a rash of new and improved electronic readers to follow. Textbook publishers will have to keep in step. The future of print textbooks is unknown. For now, we have to admit that we like our textbooks in print form and our music on CDs. The astounding recent success of Susan Boyle’s CD tells us we are not alone. Are there any other dinosaurs out there?
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