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Losing the book as a symbol - Tools of Change for Publishing
Transitioning the publishing industry to digital technologies involves lifting the words out of printed pages, and pouring them into the amorphous containers we call ebooks. Books are no longer...See...
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What's next for books in the digital age? Outlook unclear
Dan Gillmor: Innovations have blurred the boundaries of books and digital media, forcing authors and publishers to cope with an uncertain futurePhil Barker's insight:Some links to interesting...
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'Social reading' the next phase of e-book revolution - Technology & Science -...
Some digital pioneers think that the online sharing of books via social media -- social reading -- may become the dominant way of both consuming and producing stories.Phil Barker's insight:Interesting...
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02 ebook testing kit - Zak Mensah
I have just finished up a consultancy project building an ebook that i’ll talk about soon. The photo above shows the kit that I used to test the ebook at various stages. I produced two files in the...
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New OU Anywhere app increases access to module materials
The Open University has launched a new app – OU Anywhere – which will give students the option to download study materials through mobile devices.Phil Barker's insight:Interesting that the OU create a...
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PressBooks Open Source Plugin | PressBooks
Phil Barker's insight:PressBooks is a book Content Management System which exports in multiple formats: ebooks, webbooks, print-ready PDF*, and various XML flavours. PressBooks is built to be used with...
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Essay predicting that campuses will be completely digital in 3 years | Inside...
From Aug 2012: Brian Kibby, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education, on switch to digital: "As I see it, the publishing industry needs to do all it can to ensure that within 36 months, higher...
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Beyond digital textbooks - Nesta
A new competition from IC Tomorrow (a Technology Strategy Boardprogramme) and Nesta offers up to £48,000 to develop ideas that make great use of technology to support learning..See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Academic e-books: will they ever take off? - Telegraph
Sussex University student Roberta Wiafe attended a recent debate on the future of academic publishing, and remains unconvinced.Phil Barker's insight:Arts students, kindles, PDFs...included here as an...
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Ebooks are actually not books—schools among first to realizing this fact |...
Schools are realizing that ebooks are not books at all—they are software and they should be sold the way software is sold.Phil Barker's insight:Yes, this is as it should be: "Ebooks are software ......
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16 Companies Working On E-Textbooks Of The Future - Edudemic
What do the e-textbooks of the future actually look like? Who is making them? These companies are the big names you should keep an eye on.See it on Scoop.it, via eBook developments for Higher Education
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BookOnPublish
BookOnPublish is your digital solution for cross-platform, multimedia eBooks with photos, embedded videos, animation, sound, reader feedback, and learning management system support.Phil Barker's...
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Digital Publishing and the Web
"What does [the rise of digital publishing] mean for web professionals? Electronic books represent a market that’s powered by core web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and SVG. When you use EPUB, one of...
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ebooks 2013
Every year for the past dozen or so years the Department of Information Sciences at UCL have organised a meeting on ebooks.... [This year's edition] turned out to be far more interesting than I had...
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Announcing Readium.js, a JavaScript library for browser-based EPUB 3 reading...
"Today Readium.org announced that the Readium Web project is being refactored to deliver a JavaScript library for browser-based EPUB 3 reading. Currently in early alpha, the new Readium,js is a...
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CourseSmart Recognized For E-Textbook Analytics -- InformationWeek
Learning consortium names CourseSmart Analytics most innovative product for tracking students' use of e-textbooks to ensure they're getting the most out of online materials....also "a Korean...
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daisy-pipeline - A framework for document-related pipelined transformations,...
The DAISY Pipeline is an open-source, cross-platform framework for document-related pipelined transformation. It supports the migration of digital content to various formats efficiently and...
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Stir it up: cookbook of recipes and techniques enabling sohpisticated OER...
Recording of presentation given by Suzanne Hardy and James Outterside at OER 13 about work done at Newcastle University around OER, eBooks, curriculum maps etc.See it on Scoop.it, via eBook...
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Blackboard xpLor officially released with OER and CC license options -...
"...Blackboard xpLor — a new cloud-based learning object repository that was being piloted at 70 institutions. Blackboard officially released it today, giving educators the ability to discover, create,...
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Mining the Archive: eBooks | Ariadne: Web Magazine for Information Professionals
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development of ebooks.Phil Barker's insight:Interesting look at eBook developments as seen in the pages of Ariadne over the last 13 years.See...
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Elsevier Publishes Molecular Biology as Enhanced ePub3 Book | Elsevier
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the publication of the second edition of Molecular Biology, as an enhanced...
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Understanding What Higher Education Needs from E-Textbooks: An...
Twenty-three colleges and universities collaborated with Internet2, EDUCAUSE, the publisher McGraw-Hill, and the e-textbook platform provider Courseload to deliver free digital versions of textbooks to...
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The Challenge of Ebooks
Phil Barker's insight:Website that is an output from a project that Jisc ran last year looking at said challenges of ebooks, mostly from an HE library perspective. Not limited to eTextbooks, but...
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HTMLBook
"Let’s write books in HTML! HTMLBook is an open, HTML5-based standard for the authoring and production of both print and digital books. HTMLBook is built on the following premises:"Phil Barker's...
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Is HTML5 the Future of Book Authorship? - Slashdot
occidental writes "Sanders Kleinfeld writes: In the past six years, the rise of the ebook has ushered in three successive revolutions that have roiled and reshaped the traditional publishing...
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HTML5 is the Future of Book Authorship - Programming - O'Reilly Media
In the past six years, the rise of the ebook has ushered in three successive revolutions that have roiled and reshaped the traditional publishing industry. Revolution #1 began in...See it on Scoop.it,...
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Sample ePub 3 books: AZARDI@IGP
Free fully working sample ePub3 fixed layout books with audio, video and interactivity, plus sample ePub 3, ePub 2 and ePub transitional books: AZARDI@IGPPhil Barker's insight:Some examples of good...
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Using standards to make assessment in e-textbooks scalable, engaging but...
Phil Barker's insight:EPUB3 + IMS Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) and IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) 2.1See it on Scoop.it, via eBook developments for Higher Education
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When does a book become a web platform? | Wilbert Kraan
Phil Barker's insight:Overview of a conference session about extending the capability of eBooks to access the type of content and interactions that normally happens through a VLE.See it on Scoop.it,...
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Advancing Portable Documents for the Open Web Platform: EPUB-WEB
Phil Barker's insight:"A focused effort to make EPUB a first-class citizen of the Open Web Platform and as a result significantly reduce the complexity of deploying EPUB content into browsers, for...
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