More than ever before authors are presented with publishing opportunities that have never existed before. This is not to understate the hard work that authors have to go through to get recognition, write great books, and make a full time living from their passion of expression.
Done right, e-textbooks would be one way to help deal with a perennial problem in the public schools of Washington, D.C.–late textbooks. Same concept could apply to other bureaucracy-ridden school systems.