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Lisa Spiro

Major Publishers Join Indiana U. Project That Requires Students to Use E-Textbooks - 0 views

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    5 publishers involved in Indiana's etextbook initiative: "Here's how it works: Students in a select group of courses are required to pay a materials fee, which gets them access to the assigned electronic textbooks or other readings for the course. The university essentially becomes the broker of the textbook sales, and because it is buying in bulk and guaranteeing a high volume, officials say they can score better prices than can the campus bookstore or other retailers."
Lisa Spiro

Do e-readers inhibit reading comprehension? - Salon.com - 2 views

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    Useful observations. Good to see Maryanne Wolf cited.
Lisa Spiro

LukeW | Data Monday: E-reading E-books - 1 views

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    "Last year, I took at look at the growth of e-readers (many equipped with Web browsers) and e-books. Less than 12 months later, it's clear digital books are taking over."
Lisa Spiro

eTextbooks - 0 views

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    Compiles info on college e-book experiments
Lisa Spiro

Inkling About Us - Interactive textbooks for iPad. - 0 views

  • Publishing in this new era will cast aside the constraints of the printed book and embrace the opportunity of multitouch devices and their impressive computing power. It will generate content that responds to the user, and it will engage people in new ways that television, newspapers, magazines and websites never could.
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About Us « Highlighter - 0 views

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    "Highlighter is a web application that creates a dynamic relationship between publishers and readers. With Highlighter, readers can share, save, and comment on words, sentences, paragraphs and even images. All of this data is passed back to the publisher in the form of powerful analytics."
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