{"id":348925,"date":"2010-02-22T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlt.fandm.edu\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2010-02-22T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:06:11","slug":"format-war-heats-up-among-publishers-of-electronic-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/348925","title":{"rendered":"Format War Heats Up Among Publishers of Electronic Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major textbook publishers are firing the first shots in a format war over their electronic editions, with several players hoping to control distribution to students and to make used textbooks extinct in a future they see as increasingly digital.<\/p>\n<p>Macmillan Publishers is planning an unusual publishing platform for electronic textbooks that it hopes to lure other publishers to use as well (in exchange for a cut of their sales). And to entice faculty members to assign the books, the company will even pay some of them (if the professors enhance the volumes).<\/p>\n<p>The system, called <a href=\"http:\/\/dynamicbooks.vitalbook.com\/\">DynamicBooks<\/a>, lets any professor make a customized version of one of the company&#8217;s existing titles. That means that chemistry professors can take one of the company&#8217;s chemistry textbooks, rewrite some parts, add their own papers or chapters, or embed videos or homework questions they&#8217;ve created. Any passage added or changed is clearly labeled as not part of the original book, so students know what is original and what is customized\u2014a concession that was made to textbook authors.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Format-War-Heats-Up-Among\/64323\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1377\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=tlt.fandm.edu&#038;blog=7318144&#038;post=1377&#038;subd=tltatfandm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major textbook publishers are firing the first shots in a format war over their electronic editions, with several players hoping to control distribution to students and to make used textbooks extinct in a future they see as increasingly digital. Macmillan Publishers is planning an unusual publishing platform for electronic textbooks that it hopes to lure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}