First college to go bookless

Northwest Missouri State is the first college to go completely textbook-free. Instead, each student is issued a laptop on the first day, which they can use to access their e-books for their classes. The e-books cost about half as much as the traditional textbooks and offer options such as putting Post-it notes on the corners of the pages, highlighting, and cutting and pasting pages. Students can even share their notes with other classmates in a kind of social network.