Digital Textbooks?

Digital textbooks are a growing product in the educational system. As technology is continuing to merge with daily lives, digital textbooks are being promoted as a better educational tool than standard textbooks. There are many pros and cons for this. Let me go through some of them and let me give you my opinion.
Digital textbooks are great in many ways. They help the environment by causing less paper to be used to create standard textbooks. They can also be updated a lot more easily than standard textbooks and would be a more cost-efficient way to get upgraded textbooks yearly whenever new knowledge is needed to be told to students. Teachers would also have a lot more freedom in being able to choose which book to teach their students with, possibly making our education system go up dramatically.
Although digital text books have many great aspects to them, they also have negative aspects. Many schools would not be able to afford the technological devices needed to distribute these textbooks to the students. Even having the needed internet connection can be trouble for some schools. Even if common devices, like phones and other devices, are able to receive these textbooks, it cannot be assumed that every student has access to these devices. Should digital textbooks become a regulation for schools, they need to find a way to allow access to these textbooks by every student.
I think digital textbooks are a great idea, but we need to ensure that every student is able to get access to these copies and also make sure that schools will be able to afford this and not cut valuable programs and teachers from their schools.