High school trades textbooks for laptops

From a CNN article today:

Students at Empire High School (AZ) here started class this year with no textbooks — but it wasn’t because of a funding crisis. Instead, the school issued iBooks — laptop computers by Apple Computer Inc. — to each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to shun printed textbooks…. The school isn’t entirely paperless, however. It has a library, and students are often assigned outside reading.

Just think, in the future, schoolbook depositories will be obsolete. And if the School Board votes for a change in textbook content, they can wipe out those pesky chapters on evolution with the click of a button! Plus, with more DRM in ebooks, what becomes of right to read?