Middlesex U Issues Free Digital Textbooks for Every Course

Campus Technology: A UK university will be the first in that country to give students access to digital textbooks for their classes. Middlesex University expects students to save an average of £450 ($681). The institution will be working with Kortext, which provides the digital textbook platform, and John Smith's, a university bookseller. Under the four-year agreement, students will receive one free digital textbook for each class during the new academic year. Undergraduates typically take 12 classes, so they'll receive 12 books over their three-year program of study.

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