If you have been to college or university or know someone who has you understand that buying a textbook for $100+ dollars, using half the book and selling it back for $7 is not the best investment. College students spent a whopping $5.543 Billion (NACS.com) on course required materials. What? That is madness; good for the presses but bad for students. In action against this model, students have founded site that download textbooks in the same way as music file sharing is done. I hear you asking, illegal, yes. Publishers are catching on to this new trend and with a vengance seeking a way to stop it fast. I mean, they have to eat too. 

The students that support these textbook download sites are arguing that given the opportunity to downlaod legal copies of the books without paying insane prices they would. It is faster, more convient and allows books to be taken anywhere a laptop/MP3/4 divice could. 

Is there really a market for this? You betcha. Sales on college campus bookstores are down 14% (The Chronicle of Higher Education) and downloads are up with student speaking out about it.

The growing market for ebooks, whether online or downloaded,  opens up so much possibility for those who they were written to educate. If college students had that option, with legal and open parameters to use this form of technology they would and they would actually open the book to read it.