For the past few days we have been studying books and the difference between trade books and textbooks. To be completely and totally honest, it kind of irritates me that the book industry is taking money away from poor college students by jacking up the prices of textbooks to help pay for books that people read for entertainment.
We learned that books are dwindling away as more and more technology emerges. I suspect that in the next couple of years textbooks, especially for college students, will no longer be printed but rather viewed online with the option of printing at a low price.
With the rise of the world wide web and all the resources found on the internet not many people actually sit down at a library and do research that way, especially with the rise of e-books.
It will be incredibly interesting to see what happens with our children and how they are raised. In class we watched an ad for the ipad about how kid books on the ipad can interact with the child. It's crazy how much technology has changed.
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