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The (Not So) Inevitable Future of Digital Textbooks | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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"Students aren't going to "suddenly" want digital textbooks because they grew up reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar on an iPad. There'll need to be more than a Digital Playbook for schools -- both at the K-12 and higher ed level -- in convincing students to "give up loyalty to the printed book." "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Students aren't going to "suddenly" want digital textbooks because they grew up reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar on an iPad. There'll need to be more than a Digital Playbook for schools -- both at the K-12 and higher ed level -- in convincing students to "give up loyalty to the printed book." "</div>

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Ed. Dept., FCC Unveil 'Digital Textbook Playbook' - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

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"U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski were on hand to unveil the new "Digital Textbook Playbook," a resource designed by the Digital Textbook Collaborative to help guide educators in their transition to electronic resources, as the pair headlined a national online town hall meeting for the inaugural Digital Learning Day."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski were on hand to unveil the new "Digital Textbook Playbook," a resource designed by the Digital Textbook Collaborative to help guide educators in their transition to electronic resources, as the pair headlined a national online town hall meeting for the inaugural Digital Learning Day."</div>

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- e-Literate Apple and Textbooks, Part 1: The War on Paper - 0 views

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Apple iBooks 2 license agreement gets icy reception in higher education | eCampus News - 0 views

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"Advocates for open-license textbooks in higher education, while largely unhappy with Apple's new iBooks 2 platform, say the technology behemoth has done a favor for their movement: Apple's pricey, limiting approach to digital textbooks is in stark contrast to the textbook model that aims for low-cost or free college texts."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Advocates for open-license textbooks in higher education, while largely unhappy with Apple's new iBooks 2 platform, say the technology behemoth has done a favor for their movement: Apple's pricey, limiting approach to digital textbooks is in stark contrast to the textbook model that aims for low-cost or free college texts."</div>

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Obama wants schools to speed digital transition - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will recommend today at a summit of industry and education officials that states modify the textbook adoption process, allowing K-12 schools to use taxpayer funding once reserved for printed books on iPads, Kindles and the like - as well as software."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will recommend today at a summit of industry and education officials that states modify the textbook adoption process, allowing K-12 schools to use taxpayer funding once reserved for printed books on iPads, Kindles and the like - as well as software."</div>

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Study: As E-Readers Increase, So Does Resistance | mocoNews - 0 views

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Textbook of the Future: The challenges | ZDNet - 0 views

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The Future of the Book Is the Stream - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Indiana U. Helps Shape Economic Terms of eText Transition - 0 views

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Early Finding of Cal State U. E-Textbook Study: Terms Matter - Wired Campus - The Chron... - 0 views

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"California State University is running one of the nation's largest pilot studies of e-textbooks, involving thousands of students on five campuses, and one of the biggest findings so far boils down to the cliché the devil is in the details. Whether or not students liked their digital textbooks depended on what rules publishers set on how the digital books could be used."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"California State University is running one of the nation's largest pilot studies of e-textbooks, involving thousands of students on five campuses, and one of the biggest findings so far boils down to the cliché the devil is in the details. Whether or not students liked their digital textbooks depended on what rules publishers set on how the digital books could be used."</div>

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Indiana U Strikes Cost-Cutting Deal with E-Text Publishers -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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On IU's etextbook deal w/ 5 publishers

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eTexts to lower textbook costs | Campus | Indiana Daily Student - 0 views

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IU's etextbook program: effort at reducing costs, improving learning

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Educators hope Apple's textbook foray will begin a "learning revolution" - 0 views

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"Wheeler believes that Apple's announcements will be a shot in the arm for the kind of digital text programs he supports. "The economics of college textbooks are structurally flawed and are failing students, authors, professors and publishers," Wheeler told Ars. "Different approaches, including free resources and companies trying to restructure the industry-as Apple did for music-are in play.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Wheeler believes that Apple's announcements will be a shot in the arm for the kind of digital text programs he supports. "The economics of college textbooks are structurally flawed and are failing students, authors, professors and publishers," Wheeler told Ars. "Different approaches, including free resources and companies trying to restructure the industry-as Apple did for music-are in play.""</div>

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McGraw-Hill News Release - McGraw-Hill Higher Education Partners With Indiana Universit... - 0 views

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Jetpack by Purdue University - 0 views

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

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Technology News: iPad: The iBooks Profitability Puzzle - 0 views

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"Apple's new iBooks textbook market saw lots of activity over the weekend as users downloaded 350,000 copies of books, according to Global Equities Research. If iBooks catches on in a big way, it'll certainly be profitable to Apple. But whether it will be a good deal for authors and publishers has yet to be determined."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Apple's new iBooks textbook market saw lots of activity over the weekend as users downloaded 350,000 copies of books, according to Global Equities Research. If iBooks catches on in a big way, it'll certainly be profitable to Apple. But whether it will be a good deal for authors and publishers has yet to be determined."</div>

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Startup Gives Digital Textbooks the Ol' College Try | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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On Inkling and the digital textbook market (2010)

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An affordable digital biology textbook that never goes out-of-date - Maniraptora: Taste... - 0 views

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"SUMMARY: What would you say if I told you that there's a new introductory biology textbook being published that is affordable, lightweight and never goes out of date?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"SUMMARY: What would you say if I told you that there's a new introductory biology textbook being published that is affordable, lightweight and never goes out of date?"</div>

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Digital Textbooks Go Straight From Scientists to Students | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Surveys recent etextbook initiatives, including the open source platform Flow and etextbook Cahcalot, Inkling, Apple's ibooks, Wikibooks</div>

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eTexts Constituent Group | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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Lisa Spiro

Director of NITLE Labs, author of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog, and an editor of the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki.