The end of textbooks as we know them?

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Open source textbook makers may be the wave of the future. Imagine using a textbook that is not only custom made for a particular school, but even for a specific teacher.

The pitch made here seems pretty compelling to me. I'm pretty sure that if this development dovetails with the tablet revolution, we are indeed looking at a new model.

Of course, I've never loved textbooks to begin with. People debate the suggestion of one of my personal intellectual heroes, Neil Postman's suggestion that we'd be better off without them. But his arguments resonate with me.