While the eTextBooks initiative is a wonderful stride forward from our old paper textbooks it’s still essentially a re-constituted content delivery system that wasn’t designed or intended to change the one-way process of educational exchanges.
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Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won't cost you a penny - Microsoft... - 5 views
Digital Textbook Playbook | FCC.gov - 7 views
Empowering Students with Digital Reading | District Administration Magazine - 71 views
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Choosing e-reading resources
Download 20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books | Open Cul... - 11 views
The Center for Fiction - 112 views
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Literature for adults, YA, and kids--videos on interviews with authors, sections on For Writers and Audio & Video, and more for booklovers of all ages.
Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 79 views
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learning how to make an e-book via crowdsourcing your own blog (example from sociologist Kieran Healy) - or online journal (example from J of Southern Religion) - or open-access book (Mark Sample's Hacking the Academy) - recommending Pandoc but also refers to Sigil, Anthologize
Moglue - 112 views
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An interesting downloadable programme for creating ebooks. Design your book by dragging pictures, sounds and actions from the gallery or upload your own.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Supplementing Textbooks with Student Constructed Knowledge Bases | 1 to 1 Schools - 4 views
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While the eTextBooks initiative is a wonderful stride forward from our old paper textbooks it's still essentially a re-constituted content delivery system that wasn't designed or intended to change the one-way process of educational exchanges.
Booktype - 1 views
Apple's iPad Textbooks Cost 5x More Than Print :: The Education Business Blog - 2 views
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" All the sweet promises Apple is making are going to slam headfirst into the funding issue. It will cost a school 552% more to implement iPad textbooks than it does to deploy books."
Kids and Ebooks: The Future of Digital Learning | Knowledge Management System (KMS) Blog - 90 views
Readium | Digital Publishing meets Open Web - 52 views
Progressive Phonics - 80 views
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This site has a great set of downloadable PDF books and resources to help emergent readers with phonics. Free sign up is required.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Melville House Books » Random House makes history, says it will sell books to... - 34 views
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threw caution to the wind and announced they’d struck a deal with libraries: It was going to raise the price of its ebooks to library wholesalers, but once a library had bought the book, that was it. They could loan it out as many times as they wanted and never have to pay for it again.
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Random House ,threw caution to the wind and announced they’d struck a deal with libraries: It was going to raise the price of its ebooks to library wholesalers, but once a library had bought the book, that was it. They could loan it out as many times as they wanted and never have to pay for it again.
How to Create Your Own Textbook - With or Without Apple | MindShift - 141 views
Hot Free Books - 118 views
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A good site to find online ebooks of classic titles.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Download free textbooks online - 44 views
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Download free textbooks online: Bookboon's free online textbooks for students are focused and to the point. They are all written by highly respected professors from top universities in the world and cover topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science.
