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E-Book Week
From Read An E-Book Week:
Listen to this articleBook lovers world wide have used their mouse buttons to send e-book sales soaring. Steve Potash, CEO of OverDrive, Inc. and director of International Digital Publishing Forum, the trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry, stated: "eBooks represent the fastest growing segment of the publishing industry."
Read An E-Book Week (March 5-11th, 2006) was created four years ago to educate readers about the advantages of electronic books and to promote the fledgling industry. In 2002 publishers were struggling with low sales and libraries reluctant to consider their books. Today many libraries carry e-books and even provide e-book readers to their patrons. E-book topics now range from dance instruction to science fiction, and from repair manuals to romance novels. [e-books]
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 8:24 AM
2 Comments:
During my two-years-and-a-bit at University of Phoenix, the materials for each course were gradually converted from mostly physical books to entirely "rEsource" stuff - Acrobat e-texts, supplemented by Word files and java-based interactive lessons. The University would then charge the student's account $80 for each course's rEsource stuff. Since it's still not as handy or comfortable to read an e-text on a laptop as it is to read a textbook (say, over a nice Diet Pepsi at B&N), I had to pay for the privilege of downloading something that I then needed to print out - and Kinko's wouldn't touch the job, because no copyright holder's written permission to print was provided. Do you know how long it takes to print 300 pages on a $50 printer, and how many cartridges I went through doing it? Pah.
When I have a truly user-friendly, reliable e-book reader the size of a real book, I might warm to e-books. Until then, the only advantage is cut and paste capability for attributed quotes.
Karen
Hmm. How did the people at Kinko's know the content of what you wanted to print? Without permissions or licenses, wasn't the university violating copyrights just by providing copies in electronic format? I know some claim "educational use" is covered by fair use.
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