Are textbooks just a thing of the past?

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We all know from an academic point of view that nobody learns without a textbook. Although a student needs a teacher, the student cannot perform well without the guidance of a textbook to where the teacher bases the lesson before a class.

No person who has ever attended school doesn’t have a textbook? Am I right? Even a webmaster like me still consults textbooks whenever I needed some clarification. Although textbooks are quite a burden to carry especially if they are the more specialized one, it is still where everyone of us finds our roots and are able to spread our wings. 

While there have been many online electronic books(ebooks) with an increasing demand usually easily shared in scanned format in peer-to-peer networks, not everyone is used to this. Like most specialized books for college courses and professionals, a textbook is still the preference and mainly because of licensing constraints and copyright implications, writers and publishers still prefer the printed format. 

The origin of today’s highly technical world still depends on the presence of highly sophisticated printed materials that has made all we see today–possible. While the newspaper trails against the blogosphere’s presence as the primary source of headlines and local news, the textbook will surely remain to be part of us. 

In fact, a small but rather brave group of college students started out a company called “Valore”(from the word “valor”, which means having the strength of mind or spirit to encounter danger with firmness, now Valore.com) which offers an enormous selection of low priced books for sale online and offline fuelled with the values  of focus, dedication, bravery, and boldness. Strengthened by the belief that knowledge is power, these brave students started the company in an effort to help fellow students buy text books at lower prices and to offer more money back for books sold at the end of each semester. Over the years, the company grew large and thereby continues to become a great part of every student’s life.

If a software developer or  a software enthusiast and engineer like me would be compelled to talk about textbooks, that is because you and me wouldn’t be what we are today, if we never had embraced a textbook all ourlives.

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