Post a comment@Smitreski: You have it backwards---the fall of student-orientation of bookstores is due entirely to schools getting out of the business. Once the bookstore becomes beholden to a CEO and shareholders, its operation becomes all about the bottom-line instead of student service---I've been seeing it happen first-hand. As for textbooks themselves being obsolete, that's half-true. If students were really well served and taught to teach themselves while in high-school, than college classes could simply tell students to "go read up on X and we'll discuss it tomorrow". Until that day comes, though, it is a necessity to have a standardized set of information that professors can know the students have (assuming they actually do the reading). Of course, savvy publishers are starting to create e-books and more on-line media to supplement static written texts. This is what will be the demise of the traditional textbook.
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