Editorial
Are Textbooks Dispensable?
Abstract
Discussion of the possibility of moving away from the textbook toward Internet-based materials and the advantages that such an approach might accrue.
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Roy W. ClarkJournal of Chemical Education2004 81 (3), 335Textbook content will continue to grow, but not on the printed page. Almost all of the digitizable material will be sold with the text, much as CDs are now, but probably in the form of solid state memory similar to the thumb-sized USB or Firewire drives ...
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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