With CourseSmart, the “Teacher Knows If You’ve Done the Reading” in your digital textbook, reports David Streitfield of the New York Times. The article explains that CourseSmart, a software system now being tested at nine colleges and universities including Texas A&M, allows professors to “know when students are skipping pages,… Read more »
The initial ebook release of J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (released 9/27) was “literally unreadable” according to Laura Hazard Owen of Paid Content — and any number of angry and dismayed Kindle and Nook customers. Hatchette has since fixed the problem, but it’s a major blunder, especially since the… Read more »
There were some interesting articles about ebooks this week, including a few new approaches I hadn’t come across before. To begin with, there’s Digital Book World’s “When Growth In Children’s Ebooks Hits the Poverty Line”, which argues that children’s ebooks may be outstripped by ebooks for adults for some time… Read more »
