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"CourseSmart®, the world's largest provider of eTextbooks and digital course materials, today announced a new relationship with Western Governors University (WGU), in which the university will integrate CourseSmart's digital library into its online student portal, creating a comprehensive, single sign-on, platform where students and instructors can access their eTextbooks anytime, anywhere.WGU, a fully-accredited non-profit university with more than 26,000 students, began integrating CourseSmart's eTextbooks into its online learning environment in April 2011. "

Surveys recent etextbook initiatives, including the open source platform Flow and etextbook Cahcalot, Inkling, Apple's ibooks, Wikibooks

"etextbook sales are only in the single percentage range of textbooks. So what is the problem? The problem is one of expectations. "

Purdue's etextbook authoring platform, embed media, include annotations, HTML5

Launched: http://gutenberg-technology.com/index.php?page=mybookfactory Cloud-based?

Joseph Esposito looks at different textbook reform strategies, including cutting costs via "industrial engineering" (FlatWorld), crowdsourcing, multimedia, gaming, platform, and social network. Suggests that innovation will occur at community colleges and for-profits, where faculty has less power in choosing textbook.