My favorite professor (in terms of homework submission) gave us a path to store out files on our school-provided share. We'd add his name with read permissions to the ACL of the file. Things that were better in text were submitted as e-mail messages. His courses either didn't use texts, or used materials that he wrote, had printed and bound at the campus print shop (average price: about $10).

I had a few textbooks with e-book versions on a CD in the back. I usually liked the book better.