Silicon Valley should support online textbook movement

[Commentary] Silicon Valley should be cheering state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg's new push to bring digital open-source textbooks to California's community college and university campuses. With skyrocketing costs for textbooks, it represents the quickest and smartest way for colleges and universities to reduce the burden on students, who increasingly are finding higher education priced out of their reach. It also could make California a model for the nation: Digital textbooks surely are the wave of the future.