Will There Be California E-textbooks?

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has suggested that e-textbooks could be one way that his financially challenged state could save money. But the state Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Jack O'Connell, said in the San Francisco Chronicle that expecting to save money in this way is "a pipe dream."

Schwarzenegger's plan is not to produce in-house wikibooks as other groups have started to do, but to have textbook publishers offer
books digitally "for free" in exchange for the state purchasing other products produced by the publishing companies.

The state actually had the California Open Source Textbook Project
back in 2002 that planned to create e-texts for K-12 use. They had partnered with Wikibooks, but the project never finalized any books.

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