by Alison Marshall 10 years ago
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CourseSmart [www.coursesmart.com], the publisher conglomerate for etextbooks, has developed a system for educational use, adopted by Western Governors University for etextbook delivery that has the following features:• The ability to “check out” sections for offline reading• The ability to search and navigate through the table of contents• Pagination that matches hard copy textbooks• The abilities to add notes, highlight text, print pages, and send information to classmates• Reading apps for Apple and Android devices and browser-based mobile reading for other devices
ITGS textbook internet support
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multimedia
chioce of chapters
bookmarks
notes
highlighting
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mobile devices
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with dedicated apps/software
dedicated e-book readers
Publisher Rebecca Smart: I would be looking afresh at Author Solutions [which Pearson-Penguin owns] and thinking about how to use its workflow infrastructure and production network to create a new self-publishing services offering that uses scale to provide low-cost, clear, fair assistance for authors.
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Library IssuesWho owns the book? Ebooks are a challenging area for libraries. Licensing is a critical issue because ebooks are being marketed as if they were analogous to print purchases. They most definitely are not. They can be available one day and gone the next.http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/dec11/Hamaker.shtml
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Amazon’s new announcement concerning public libraries, the Kindle and OverDrive, makes the link of the library reader to the content explicit. If the library user wants to buy the book later, their annotations from the original “read” of the library “copy” are available in their accounts. One of the principles of contemporary librarianship has been the commitment to de-link patron and title information once a borrowing transaction is complete. With OverDrive and Amazon, this principle, designed to protect confidentiality, becomes moot for their ebooks.OverDrive’s instructions are specific:Click the ‘Get for Kindle’ button. This opens the Amazon.com website. You may be required to sign in with your Amazon.com account if you are not already logged in.And the resultant accounts obviously link:Patrons checking out Kindle books will be able to use Amazon’s Whispersync technology so that they can highlight and add margin notes to Kindle books they check out. The notes will not show up when the next patron
Synchronization across various platforms
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specific topics
access specific chapters
Kno App for iOS and Android tablets use The Marlin DRM
The Marlin DRM was developed and is maintained in an open industry group known as the Marlin Developer Community (MDC) and is licensed by MTMO. (Marlin was founded by five companies, Intertrust, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung and Sony.) The Kno online textbook publisher uses Marlin to protect ebooks it sells in the ePub format. These books can be read on the Kno App for iOS and Android tablets.
Apple's Fairplay
Apple's Fairplay DRM is applied to ePubs, and can currently only be read by Apple's iBooks app on iOS devices.
Adobe's Adept DRM
Adobe's Adept DRM is applied to ePubs and PDFs, and can be read by several third-party ebook readers, as well as Adobe Digital Editions software. Barnes & Noble uses a DRM technology provided by Adobe, and is applied to ePubs and the older Palm format ebooks
Amazon's -original Mobipocket encryption
Amazon's DRM is an adaption of the original Mobipocket encryption, and is applied to Amazon's Mobipocket, KF8 and Topaz format ebooks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
Stands for Digital Rights Management, it is a class of technology that is created by companies with the intent to control the use of the digital content and devices. Some of these techniques include limiting the amount of times it can be downloaded.
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