<p>I teach at a community college. It is hard enough to get students to read a real text, but getting them to go online is even more difficult. Many of my students are non-traditional and don't have easy online access or adequate computers. In my discipline, students need to be able to refer to chapter material while solving homework problems and an e-book might actually require more time to accomplish this. In my experience, smart publishers are streamlining their texts to save on printing costs (my students typically pay $150+ for a new book) and shifting the "extras" such as ethics cases, real world examples, guided practice problems, etc. to the internet where motivated students will seek them out. I have responding to publisher surveys about e-books for close to 5 years and they don't seem to be taking off any more now than when they were first pushing them (again, speaking only for my discipline).</p>