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Good article on the emergence of e-textbooks in education and the affordances they offer.

Digital curation tools and techniques

"What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago the most adventurous business schools were experimenting with e-readers - Kindles - to replace paper case studies and textbooks, and Facebook to boost student recruitment. Today, e-readers are passé; Facebook ubiquitous." --Someone tell WMS!

"After piloting a digital textbook rental program in fall 2010, the California State University system learned a few lessons about how the e-books worked for students."

Though we keep hearing about a huge increase in sales of e-books, a recent survey shows that, for students, that needle has not really moved much.

"If you are a large for-profit education company-say, an LMS vendor or a textbook company-give $5,000 to the DS106 Kickstarter project. At that level of contribution, in addition to all the benefits of the lower levels, you'll get a mention as doing a really swell thing on the fabulous e-Literate weblog."  Instructure did this thing!

THE ACADEMICPUB APPLICATION GIVES EDUCATORS THE ABILITY TO CREATE THEIR OWN CUSTOM BOOKS - IN PRINT AND E-BOOK FORMAT. Our application provides real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library along with the ability to add your own materials and articles from the web. And - peer recommendations from colleagues in your discipline can present new possibilities to enrich your courses.