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Microsoft found a way into the eTextbook business. Is that the...
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Microsoft Invests $300M in Nook Tablet, Textbook Business -
Hearst hails the age of the tablet, says readers are willing to pay... tabtimes.com
London, England – The World e-Reading Congress drew a number of...
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Sebastien
A rich publishing framework for textbooks, learning content and rich graphics books
Featuring a system which allows publishers to transform their back list and new titles into dynamic reflowable eBook (as EPUB3). Making ...
Publiwide - Blog publiwide.com
When we started looking into publishing rich enhanced eBooks, we quickly noticed that there weren’t that many tools available to address the production process. This isn’t surprising given the fact that the greatest part of the...
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Philippe
Free Online French Typographic Corrector
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A free online french typographic corrector may be used at the address http://typographie.piprime.fr/One may improve it by ...
Sebastien
Transforming content as ePUB3
ePUB3 has fueled debates about its capacity at becoming a reliable format for not only eBooks but a wide range of ...
Moolchand
Myles
E-books are the fastest-growing area of book sales, especially for youngsters | VentureBeat venturebeat.com
New data from the Association of American Publishers shows that a lot of y'all got e-readers over the holidays. Year-over-year, e-book sales have skyrocketed, especially for young adult and kids' titles. In January 2011,...
Myles
Myles
A new educational app from global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), HMH Fuse™: Algebra 1, was studied by research firm Empirical Education Inc. and found to be a platform that successfully “encourages the use of...
Myles
Good Technology’s most recent report of device activations for the first quarter of 2012 showed Apple’s iPad leading all other tablets in the enterprise by a landslide.
Sebastien
Microsoft found a way into the eTextbook business. Is that the premise of a larger scale strategy which will involve content edition/...
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Microsoft Invests $300M in Nook Tablet, Textbook Business blogs.edweek.org
Jason Tomassini recently joined Education Week as a reporter covering business and innovation. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, and other news organizations.
Sebastien
Moolchand
This week Apple announced some new features to iBooks. One interesting one is a read-aloud function for select kid's books. It uses a real...
Moolchand
Sample Read Aloud book “Splat the Cat” vimeo.com
One of the very interesting new features that Apple has added to iBooks 1.3 is support for Media Overlays as specified in the EPUB3 spec. According to Lawrence Furnival, it works with Fixed Layout EPUBs using SMIL files that...
Moolchand
The LeapFrog LeapPad used to be a book-like device with some interactive elements, the latest upgrade turns it into a tablet. The LeapPad now can...
Sebastien
Get updated about new initiatives thanks to the EDT's newswire
On a bi-weekly basis, we publish a short newsletter featuring the adoption of etextbooks in learning environments. Our objective is to ...
Enhanced Digital Textbook publiwide.createsend5.com
Sebastien
Latest issue of Enhanced Textbook newswire
Let's travel around the globe to learn about eTextbook initiatives in South Korea, Singapore and Ukraine.
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Anfi
Technology + Politics = Facepalm techcrunch.com
Oh, how embarrassing. Earlier this week, Elizabeth May, the leader of Canada's Green Party, took to her Twitter account and declared war on wi-fi. To think I very nearly voted for these clowns in our recent election. Lesson for...
Sebastien
Check this article providing a great snapshot of the way publishers are tackling the app question
Considering the versatility of the ePUB3 format, I believe that this go-to-app strategy will be challenged by the need to optimize the ...
How Publishers Are Tackling the App Question publishersweekly.com
Are apps marketing devices for authors and books, or a new revenue stream? This is just one of many questions publishers are asking as they develop apps from their content. When PW approached large and midsize publishers to...
Sebastien
Announcement from Enhanced Textbook
Hello Everyone,
it is quite rare for me to send some announcements but I came across a couple of subjects that I thought would be ...
