The school textbooks crisis continues. Prices of textbooks are still rising this year, despite last year's policy change banning the sales tactic whereby schools receive free teaching materials from publishers. As a result, the education bureau has proposed to develop an e-textbook system. LRI does not believe that this is the best solution. We believe that the problem lies with the fact that students are forced to purchase particular textbook as a strict requirement under the current education system. Also, the education reform a decade ago, which makes Cantonese the main teaching language, gave Hong Kong students no choices, but to purchase textbooks from local publishers. Forcing parents to buy specific books is the main issue in this crisis.