Admittedly, even though we controlled for student baseline scores and demographics, mean characteristics of students at the classroom level, and teachers» prior value - added, we could be overstating effects of textbooks, if the schools
using certain textbooks are systematically different in some unmeasured way.
«Boxed set» offerings such as The Hunger Games trilogy at $ 15 do very well with price - conscious Kindle customers, and customers show a consistent willingness to pay over $ 10
for certain textbooks, business, and technology titles, to name a few categories.
There will be some exemptions, though — such as magazine and newspaper subscriptions, along with digital versions of the Bible and
certain textbooks.