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Charles Phillips

E-books catching on with readers - CNN.com - 0 views

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    What are some possibilities for e-books in math? Is it realistic to believe this will entice students to read more? How interactive are these e-books?
Diana Mazzuca

Hybrid Books: 'Illuminations' And The Future Of The E-Reader : Monkey See : NPR - 1 views

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    The publisher, Melville House, has recently come out with the "hybrid book". This product includes a book and a corresponding DVD, which provides background information and pictures pertaining to the story. Although I see the educational significance, I am skeptical as to whether or not the hybrid book will catch on. 
Devon Dickau

BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

  • The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
  • However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
  • When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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  • Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
  • The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
Liz Huttner

Novelties - Reading E-Books in All the Colors of the Rainbow - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Color e-readers could be very useful for textbook viewing.
Vafa AK

Inching closer to the perfect e-reader for students | Education IT | ZDNet.com - 0 views

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    I've always been interested in the use of these so called 'e-readers', how they hopefully will take the place of books, will let you take notes right there on the digital text and will seriously lighten you backpack. Obviously these things haven't quite caught on yet, but the techology is certainly starting to get better and better in this area!
Niko Cunningham

Libraries begin to rent out e-books - 0 views

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    More fears of publishers who hold the rights to intellectual property. Folks, you think health care is a big debate? Wait until our patent system changes - that will be a gladiator battle with everyone in the world (free and not free) participating... "As digital collections grow, Mr. Sargent said he feared a world in which "pretty soon you're not paying for anything." Partly because of such concerns, Macmillan does not allowits e-books to be offered in public libraries. Simon & Schuster, whose authors include Stephen King and Bob Woodward, has also refrained from distributing its e-books to public libraries. "We have not found a business model that works for us and our authors," said Adam Rothberg, a spokesman."
Yan Feng

Opportunities and Challenges in the E-textbook Industry - 1 views

As for me, I prefer traditional textbook to e-textbook. I do not like reading by Kindle or other digital reading devices. But it is a personal choice. The market for e-books is huge, especially e-t...

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Devon Dickau

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

  • For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. But so far it just hasn't happened. One explanation for the delay is that while music fans were eager to try a new, more portable form of entertainment, students tend to be more conservative when choosing required materials for their studies. For a real disruption in the textbook market, students may have to be forced to change.
  • saying that e-textbooks should be required reading and that colleges should be the ones charging for them
  • radical shift
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  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts
  • publishers could eliminate the used-book market and reduce incentives for students to illegally download copies as well
  • When students pay more for new textbooks than tuition in a year, then something's wrong
  • Tricky issues remain, though. What if a professor wrote the textbook assigned for his or her class? Is it ethical to force students to buy it, even at a reduced rate? And what if students feel they are better off on their own, where they have the option of sharing or borrowing a book at no cost?
  • In music, the Internet reduced album sales as more people bought only the individual songs they wanted. For textbooks, that may mean letting students (or brokers at colleges) buy only the chapters they want. Or only supplementary materials like instructional videos and interactive homework problems, all delivered online. And that really would be the end of the textbook as we know it.
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    I would be for this. I could not believe a place so big on recycling (Harvard) murdered so many trees with the printing of course packs. I like this idea if you could get the material from other sources than just the school (say the author or publisher directly or something like Amazon). Otherwise, there is no opportunity for competition or bargaining.
Jason Dillon

Free interactive e-book about connected teacher learning - 0 views

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    "The personal essays, which first appeared in the Voices from the Learning Revolution group blog, include images, clickable links and videos - plus selected comments by readers of the original posts." You may have heard of Will Richardson or seen a TED talk of his. He is the co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice, an organization which does online and blended teacher development. As they launch Powerful Learning Press, they are giving away their first e-book.
Rupangi Sharma

Print Books vs E-Books - 0 views

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    Comparing parent-child co-reading on print, basic, and enhanced e-book platforms...'Quick studies' by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center to address the problem of how fast technologies seem to be growing and the gap between their emergence and research to back up their effectiveness.
Nick Siewert

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Discussion on whether digital reading differs neurologically from paper reading.
Lin Pang

Textbooks Finally Take a Big Leap to Digital - 3 views

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    For the first time, Amazon's digital books had outsold paper books. While many popular consumer books have successfully made the switch into the new format, textbooks are still widely read on paper. However, textbooks as e-books ought to be seen as a stepping stone to the future. And we need to design devices that are specifically made to support academic reading.
Ashley Lee

Novelties - Multiple Screens Built for Textbooks as E-Books - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    designing e-textbooks
Maung Nyeu

What You (Really) Need to Know - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Lawrence Summers, former Harvard President, touts e-book and role to technology in education.
Ayelet R

For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    This reminds me of the article on the no-tech school in California where techie parents send their kids to school.
Jennifer Lavalle

8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education - 5 views

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    Concord Consortium is mentioned in #1, 4 and 5: 1. Better Simulations and Models 2. Global Learning 3. Virtual Manipulatives 4. Probes and Sensors 5. More Efficient Assessment 6. Storytelling and Multimedia 7. E-books 8. Epistemic Games
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    8 ways technology is improving education
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    Simulations, Global Learning, Virtual Manipulatives, Probes and Sensors, More efficient assessment, storytelling and media, e-books - good overview of how technology is enhancing education
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    This list almost feels like it could be used as a litmus test to judge new technology a school is considering.
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