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New Tool for Rewriting E-Textbooks

Inside Higher Ed says:

Macmillan, a major textbook publisher, is today introducing a new service that will let faculty members customize digital textbooks, adding and subtracting chapters, and to rewrite individual sentences and paragraphs, The New York Times reported.

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Posted on 22 Feb 2010 around 10pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article

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The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration

Wired Epicenter says:

Last week Jeremy Clark from Adobe and I unveiled the first glimpse of the Wired Reader at TED. Above, you’ll see a video, narrated by Jeremy and Wired Creative Director Scott Dadich, who led our tablet team, that shows more. It explains why the tablet is such a groundbreaking opportunity for magazines such as ours.

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Posted on 17 Feb 2010 around 9am • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Technology | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article

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Javascript ePub Readers

Ajaxian says:

eBooks have gone mainstream, and right now the open ePub format is getting a lot of attention, being the iPad's book format of choice. Often overlooked in gadget-centric media is the fact that ePub is based on web standards, and therefore amenable to being rendered in the browser, sans plugins.

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Posted on 10 Feb 2010 around 10pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article

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