Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Google and Wikipedia replace textbooks

A study in Ohio found that college intro. psychology students who only use Google and Wikipedia instead of texts or eBooks score just as well:

http://ebooksconsidered.blogspot.com/2011/02/etextbooks.html

This suggests a severe disadvantage to publishers since both texts and eBooks cost money, are less convenient, etc. Arguably Google and Wikipedia are updated more frequently, too.


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