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News Times of India, 4 July 2009, page 17.

NEW DELHI: You may be sitting with a laptop in your Noida apartment, surfing the net in a New York library, or just browsing in a Cape Town
cybercafe – anyone anywhere can attend this book fair. Of course, you can’t run your finger over their spines or quickly scan the synopses on their back covers – these books have neither.

But a few mouse clicks is all you need to access them. For a month starting Saturday, over 2.5 million books will be available… Continue

Times of India Epaper, page 18, 10 June 2009.

Arnie orders total recall of California’s textbooks

Californian school kids have been told to throw away their textbooks to help the state avoid bankruptcy. But they won’t need total recall: they’re going digital instead. The textbooks have been terminated by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who says they are “outdated” and too expensive.
Schwarzenegger announced the ban on textbooks in a classroom in Sacramento, holding up four large text boo… Continue