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Technology: The textbook of the future

Undergraduate textbooks are going digital. Declan Butler asks how this will shake up student reading habits and the multi-billion-dollar print textbook market.

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Butler, D. Technology: The textbook of the future. Nature 458, 568–570 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/458568a

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