There seems to be several mentions of high school textbooks. I thought high school students did not normally purchase textbooks, rather the school district provided them. Has this changed ?

I can see Apple having an 8GB iPad 2 -- in a couple months --*that cost $349 and is only available to the Education Store like their low end iMac.

The textbook industry is the most profitable section in the book publishing industry. With textbooks often costing 100+ dollars each, publishers make fat profits from them.

If publishers stand to lose their profits from selling textbooks cheaply, then they will not go along with Apple.

After all, textbooks on Amazon in eBook form for the Kindle are STILL EXPENSIVE - often costing the same as the physical textbooks themselves.

Currently, education is going downhill in the U.S.

California Schools, for example, no longer teach handwriting! They only teach students to write their signature.

How stupid. How shocking.

It is through the lost of traditional teaching methods - which are still taught in other higher achieving countries which means every other country except the U.S.A. - that our students fail.

i got excited when i saw textbooks for $15 or less... then got mad when they are only for K-12... There needs to be something done about college textbooks.. $200+ for some college textbooks is a global scam.. i had a professor who WROTE a textbook himself... sold through one of the big companies for $127 and he got only $2-3 for every textbook sold..... WHERE IS THE $$ GOING?