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Interesting report on adopting e-textbooks.  Important to remember how early we are in the development of e-readers and that we have few texts developed explicitly for e-readers.

. Kevin Green, a junior, loved the e-book required in his business-marketing class this spring. "But if it was an accounting course," he said, "I would kind of want a printed textbook because it's got all the numbers" and equations that would be harder to manage electronically. His instructor, Michael J. Wilson, an associate professor of accounting, economics, and finance, said the one problem they had with the e-book in the marketing course was when students needed to refer to a dense table of numbers in the bac

Received notice of this page via Tim O'Reilly's tweet. He says: ""Very cool: Journal of Visualized Science Experiments. A multimedia re-visioning of the science journal."

A private school in Ashburnham, Mass. began to get rid of most of the school's library books and replaced them with a digital collection.

Apparently in some places, the move to digital has been more pervasive than estimated.

FOR decades, even after it was renamed and relocated from its original home at Radcliffe, the Columbia Publishing Course seemed unchanging, a genteel summer tradition in the book business, a white-glove six-week course in which ambitious college graduates were educated in the time-honored basics of book editing, sales, cover design and publicity. Not this summer.

Interesting project for Internet archiving...wonder about some of the (eventual) privacy issues that might be involved, though. As the article quotes the archivist: "'Whoever is going to be president in 2048, she's in high school now, and she may have a Web site, and we probably have it.'" How many political opponents would love to seize on this hypothetical person if her teenage rants (e.g., "OMG my mom is so horrible, she won't let me go to Kasey's party on Saturday! Isn't there some kind of law against child abuse?") came to light when she's 53 and in a position of power? Is/Will it be considered fair game to judge a middle-aged woman by what the adolescent says now?

Cengage Learning has signed an agreement to acquire Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic's digital and print school publishing unit, which includes the National Geographic Science series, a core elementary science curriculum, National Geographic Explorer! Cengage, with brands including Brooks/Cole, Delmar, Gale, South-Western and Wadsworth, and NGS have collaborated since 2007 to produce English language learning materials for kindergarten through adult education.