Aliya Sternstein's techdaily article "Moving the Campus Bookstore Online," covers proposals for the future of a digital marketplace and licensing clearinghouse for textbooks and a recent federal report on making textbooks more affordable, California state models, and publisher reactions.

The driving factor behind the study is of course the rising cost of education, of which textbooks are a part (a rather small part, but never mind). No one seems in a hurry to put the puzzle together; the two sectors of the economy in which prices notoriously rise with little accountability to consumers are education and medicine--two areas heavily subsidized by the federal government. Whither price sensitivity?