Negotiations with Patchwork Girl

Still negotiating with the department to have them buy ten licenses for the e-book. The department is somewhat reluctant to give $75 for an electronic text which, I sense, they assume that it will not be used by anyone but me. So in a sense it is a lost investment. Never knew it would be this hard.
I think if our departments will go extinct, it will be because our unwillingness to open our boundaries up a bit. We need to realize, along with all the other English departments (who seem to have realized it long before us), that literature is moving beyond print. Shakespeare is moving beyond bound books. Books will always remain and will serve invaluable purposes, but digital literature will be considered just as valid.