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August 30, 2002|By Marsha Walton http://articles.cnn.com/2002-08-30/tech/coolsc.ebooks_1_e-book-astronomy-student-forum?_s=PM:TECH Will physical books be gone in five years?
October 17, 2010|By Cody Combs http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-17/tech/negroponte.ebooks_1_e-books-nicholas-negroponte-physical-books?_s=PM:TECH The ebook: still in its 'early days' in PHL, but a growing option
CARMELA G. LAPEÑA, GMA NEWS August 26, 2012 http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/271256/lifestyle/literature/the-ebook-still-in-its-early-days-in-phl-but-a-growing-option Electronic library pushed in GenSan public schools
By Allen V. Estabillo on October 4 2012 10:45 pm http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2012/10/04/electronic-library-pushed-in-gensan-public-schools/ Should College Students Be Forced To Buy E-Books?
Janet Novack, Forbes Staff 5/18/2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2012/05/18/should-college-students-be-forced-to-buy-e-books/ For some time now, e-books have been the presumed future of higher education. The reasons why have always been pretty apparent: they have the potential to save students money, they’re a lot easier to carry around, and because today’s students seem to prefer digital to print when it comes to just about everything else, it followed that they’d feel the same way about textbooks (Novack, 2012).

Factors for ebooks: http://www.panareadigital.com/ebooks-in-students%E2%80%99-lives-2/ Ebooks in students’ lives
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E-books are here to stay
Tom Wilkie and Sian Harris, May 2008

So, what is this eBook reader exactly?
Matt Palen, 2010 http://www.ereadercentral.org/so-what-ebook-reader-exactly Learning Good Study Habits
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