E-books With Expiration Dates

Bookstores at Princeton University, the University of Utah and eight other colleges are offering students bargain textbook downloads that expire after five months.

The new program is among the most far-reaching moves toward digital publishing made in the academic environment to date, and could prove to be a significant test of the kinds of trade-offs students are willing to make in order to access the conveniences of digital texts.

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