Information from the http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-312244A1.pdf
- While the United States spends more than $7 billion a year on textbooks, too many students are using books that are 7-10 years old with outdated material.
- Digital textbooks are used in pockets of the U.S., but adoption is not widespread.
- The U.S. trails countries like South Korea in transitioning to digital textbooks; the country has announced that they will begin transitioning all students to digital textbooks starting in 2013 with the transition complete by 2015.
