I read recently that there is a campaign here now to get all students at Secondary level (analogous to High School in the US school system) using eBook readers instead of books. It isn't an entirely coherent campaign as yet but I imagine calls for such things will become more common in the years to come.
One of the reasons parents and teachers are asking for this measure to be taken is because kids typically have to carry large, inch thick textbooks for each of the up to 10 subjects they are studying that day. Many schools have lockers but some don't, and also if a student has work to do from a textbook for homework they have to drag it home with them.
I think it will be interesting to see how this all pans out (I really wish I had taken this as my phd topic and not music technology ). The problems with bringing in a new system like this, especially suddenly are potentially manifold.