Textbook of the future? Not until we figure out distribution, DRM, and ecosystem | ZDNet

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Textbook of the future? Not until we figure out distribution, DRM, and ecosystem | ZDNet


Summary: Hardware is only a tiny part of the problem we need to solve to get educational resources into kids’ hands (both literally and figuratively) at scale.

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