Pro: You'll pay about 50 percent of the cost of a new print textbook, but
Con: You can't sell the digital textbook back to the bookstore at the end of the course.

Pro: You don't have to carry around a heavy textbook, but
Con: You do need to either carry your laptop or log on to the Internet to use the digital text.

Pro: If you buy a digital text, fewer trees are cut down for paper and fewer trucks are on the road to move the book from publisher to bookstore (and back again at the end of the quarter), but
Con: There isn't one; digital is the best choice for the environment.

Pro: You can enlarge or shrink the text-size on your computer monitor, but
Con: Especially when compared to older computer monitors, reading from paper is less fatiguing.

Pro: You can study in a group more easily by projecting the text on a screen, but
Con: Group studying isn't for everybody; a telephone and a print book can do much the same thing.

Give it a try; if you buy the book and don't like working with digital texts you can have your money back. Only conditions are that your cancel your order within two weeks of your purchase and that you have visited less than 20 percent of the content. View the CourseSmart guarantee here [Term #10- return poicy].