The School of Communications would like to become more eco-friendly and go green. The idea is to completely switch from standard textbooks to e-texts and to have only one book for all of the mass media classes.
This idea is ludicrous. Mass media is a very broad subject, covering newsprint, magazines, broadcast journalism, photography, web design, public speaking and more. How can one book, even an e-text, begin to cover all these media?
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Not only that, but students must essentially rent an e-text. The average price is $80, and its content is only available for 180 days. Those starting as freshman at WU will spend $640, on average, for e-texts during the four years they are here. Plus, there's no buyback option, and that does not include the price of the reader for the e-texts, which cost anywhere from $250 to $600, unless you already own a laptop that can be used as a reader.
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Problem three is many of these readers do not allow students to take notes. There is simply not enough room. The average storage space on readers is about 50 megabytes. Plus, the screens are just too small.
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