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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.