Well, just tonight I was surfing the website of a textbook publisher and there was a survey for textbook preference. The results were surprising. Not really, actually, 49% of respondents preferred brand new printed books; 21% preferred buying used print books, and the remainder preferred e-books. In essence, fully 70% of students don't prefer ebooks. Perhaps this is why the Algonquin College experiment is so ill-timed. It's a technology that is far from mature, far from practical and far from being universally adopted. It's sad that a college with such a reputation is taking such blind risks with what is largely an unproven medium. The only other similar Canadian institutions with projects like this are shopping mall "colleges" and one online university, from what I see. No publicly funded bricks and mortar colleges. It's a lonely branch that AC has perched itself upon. Judging by the 3/4 of my classmates who print or bought their texts, it's not likely to fill up anytime soon