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" * Sophie Author allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents without specialized training. * Sophie Reader allows readers to read Sophie books in a browser without downloading a separate application. * Comment frames allow easily constructed spaces for discussion inside of books. * Browser frames allow embedding fully functional web browsers in book pages. * Sophie can import, embed, and export PDF files. * Easy to use embedded books: Sophie books can open inside other Sophie books. * Frame-based timelines present an easy way to create animations. * Sophie Server allows uploading, managing, and downloading books on a server. * Sophie Server allows simultaneous collaborative creation of books."

Welcome to Yale Books Unbound 1 This project is part of the Institute for the Future of the Book's CommentPress experiment. 2 It's a way of sharing books and the ideas within them, as well as facilitating some of our works in progress. 3 Yale University Press is pleased to participate in this initiative since we see it as a very promising way of fulfilling our main objective of disseminating art and knowledge to the widest possible audience and facilitating on-going and all-important dialogues about ideas and issues that shape our world. 4 Up until now, very few book publishers have leveraged new technologies to add any additional value beyond basic Search functionality to their content. We agree with the Institute for the Future of the Book that a broad rethinking of books-and particularly scholarly monographs-needs to take place.

The website for the official "Librarians and Bibliophiles Havana Book Fair Tour" in Cuba from Saturday 14 to Saturday 21 February 2009. It takes place during the 18th Havana International Book Fair where dozens of countries and scores of publishers exhibit their works. It's a rare opportunity for professionals in library sciences, booksellers, educators and book lovers in general to get an unprecedented look into issues of freedom of expression directly from Cuban intellectuals, writers, librarians, publishers and curators.

"Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie's goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing, redefine the notion of a book or academic paper to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation. Sophie 2.0 is being rewritten in Java, and the Sophie Reader will be browser-based, offering even easier access to - and sharing of - Sophie projects. Sophie 2.0 will also allow the embedding of Sophie Books as applets on any Web page, and the new version will support Adobe Flash. In addition, Sophie 2.0 will be accompanied by full-scale support for an emerging Sophie user community."

Gutenberg Books - full text search. Includes many languages - Languages with more than 50 books: Chinese Dutch English Esperanto Finnish French German Greek Italian Latin Portuguese Spanish Swedish Tagalog

Come to a celebration of Francophonie from all over the world complete with a Cajun band concert, a Quebecois concert, and a buffet of crepes, Swiss raclette, and Malien specialities. There is also a French book sale with second-hand books and teaching materials.

Arc90, the team behind Readability, is today introducing Readlists, a new website / web app that lets you create your own ebooks from your favorite articles online. The concept is simple: click "create Readlist," paste in whichever URLs you'd like in your book, add a title and custom descriptions, and share. You can export your book in either the near-universal ePub format, or send it directly to your Kindle. Sharing options are pretty standard - each readlist has a public URL for viewing, and a public edit link which you can send to people you want to collaborate with. There's also an embed tool that lets you add lists to your website or blog."

"When typing in Japanese, your iPhone uses names and readings from your address book as a kind of second dictionary for its text auto-complete. This was a very smart way to program the iPhone since the most common reason to use non-standard kanji/words to begin with is because they're used that way in a proper name (which, if it's someone/someplace/somewhere you know, would probably be in your address book anyway)."

Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators. Information technology has brought unique capabilities to learning spaces, whether stimulating greater interaction through the use of collaborative tools, videoconferencing with international experts, or opening virtual worlds for exploration. This e-book represents an ongoing exploration as we bring together space, technology, and pedagogy to ensure learner success. Please note: In addition to the e-book's core chapters on learning space design principles (chapters 1?13) , this site also offers case studies illustrating those principles (chapters 15?43), including links to examples of innovative learning spaces. The entire collection is complete and available for printing as individual chapters or the entire book.

Welcome to The Golden Notebook Project. Start reading the book online → Here are answers to some common questions: What is this? It's an experiment in close-reading in which seven women are reading the book and conducting a conversation in the margins. The project went live on Monday 10 November 2008. Why are you doing it? It's part of a long-term effort to encourage and enable a culture of collaborative learning. What do you hope to learn? We don't yet understand how to model a complex conversation in the web's two-dimensional environment and we're hoping this experiment will help us learn some of what we need to do to make this sort of collaboration as successful as possible.

Authors: Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin, Editors; Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, National Research Council Authoring Organizations Description: With literacy problems plaguing as many as four in ten American children, this important book draws upon the expertise of psychologists, neurobiologists, and educators to establish clear recommendations on several prominent education controversies. This book explores how to prevent reading ...

Tired of outrageous textbook prices? Can't sell back any of your books? Can't find any used books? Sick of all the extra CD-ROMs and workbooks that you don't ever use? We're fighting back against textbook ripoffs and we're making progress. Join our national campaign and fight for affordable textbooks!

NICHD Research: Setting the Record Straight NRRF Note: The following review of Gerald Coles' new book attacking NICHD and NICHD researchers was done by a respected non-NICHD researcher. The book, Misreading Reading: The Bad Science That Hurts Children, is being promoted widely and aggressively by the IRA, NCTE, and the WL communities. We are posting the review to set the record straight in an objective manner. Straw Men and Very Misleading Reading: A Review of Misreading Reading by Louise Spear-Swerling

I have seen the future, and it works. Sort of. This particular version of things to come is the future of the book. And the future of reading, too, as we move from consuming books on paper to contributing to them on screens. Maybe. Perhaps. As I suggest below, it might even be a future for 'watching' films. Whatever. In any case, The Golden Notebook Project, which went live at the start of this week, is an entirely engrossing cultural experiment.

We are inviting contributions to an edited book, to be published by a major international publisher, on the topic of language learning and teaching beyond the classroom. The aim of the book is to provide an account of the range of settings and types of learning and teaching beyond the classroom and to develop a broad theoretical understanding of this area of research and practice.

"Why do we have copyrights? What's "fair use"? Bound By Law reaches beyond documentary film to provide a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture. This book is available under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike license."

"nciku has prepared bilingual versions of a number of classic public-domain short stories, including stories from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Happy Prince and other tales by Oscar Wilde, and other short stories by O Henry and Edgar Allan Poe. We provide English and Japanese versions of each paragraph, so you can easily see the translation for the part of the story you're reading, as well as listen to an audio recording of each story in its original language or select English or Japanese text with your mouse to see a translation of that word. "

'Reading Workshop' Approach Lets Students Pick the Books - Series - NYTimes.com

"Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry--including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation--to show their relevance for contemporary culture." Open Access PDF version available for free download

Website that sells Japanese eBooks and accepts foreign credit cards. There are also quite a few free titles, including cases where first book in manga series is free, etc.