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So you want to use e-textbooks in the 2011-2012 school year?  Although there are some quality players in the market, no one platform is quite ready for prime time.  What options are available?  What are their feature sets?  

* This brief article provides an overview of Creative Commons relevant to educators. While copyright laws provide some provision for educational uses, materials (e.g., texts, videos, audio, images, etc.) released under one of the Creative Commons licenses are actually much easier to incorporate into course content. Rather than just linking to a source, you may have the licensed right to incorporate and edit the material directly

ipad app and list of books available (65 total on 5/23/11)

Nature Publishing will announce a new biology textbook on Tuesday, and the textbook will have a digital only edition. The $49 digital textbook will include lifetime access to regularly update content that can be access online, from a tablet, and it can even be printed.