Business owners are plunging into the digital arena and converting their content format so as to provide better user experience to its readers using different types of smart devices.
The program will be used to determine how effective iPads can be as tools to enhance learning as well as how such mobile devices can be integrated into the workplace.
The university has already identified one class where the textbook in ePub format costs $100 less than the dead-tree version.
With a typical class load of five courses, it could be possible to completely offset the cost of a device like an iPad in textbook savings alone.
North Carolina State University Libraries announced this past spring that it acquired 30 iPads to offer students and faculty for four-hour loans as part of the school's Technology Lending Service.