As the reach of digital textbooks expands into various levels and stages of education, from preschool through medical school, one of the underserved areas
of academic ebook publishing has been vocational education.
Experts pegged the high rate of piracy as far
as academic ebooks are concerned to the high price tag that these typically cost.
The promises of affordable textbooks that could be updated with the latest information at a moment's notice haven't come through; even the much - touted bells and whistles approach to tablet -
based academic ebooks have gone largely stagnant as learning outcomes have not been noticeably improved — at least not according to the almighty standardized tests — with the addition of embedded content.
Although the audience for more scholarly works might be smaller and have unique needs, that same discovery issue
hinders academic ebook discovery.
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JSTOR, which is considering adding more legal periodicals to its database, has partnered with major university presses to enlarge its collection
of academic ebooks.
In order to make a broader - scale transition to
academic ebooks, the hurdles of our current attitudes about textbooks in general will have to be overcome.
Digital textbook publisher Inkling was at the IDPF Digital Book event today to demonstrate some new features within
the academic ebook developer's interactive content.
While some sectors of the education industry are still waiting for the explosion of digital textbooks that can provide budget - friendly solutions with immediate updates to new information, e-textbook providers are already making improvements to the design concept of
an academic ebook.
And
academic ebooks are as expensive or more than regular books, so I don't see the savings yet.
In addition to fiction and nonfiction titles,
academic ebooks can refer to reference books, academic journals, scholarly monographs, etextbooks, electronic reference materials, and «even long documents available solely as Web pages,» the report notes.
Ingram Content Group, one of the dominant players in
the academic ebook market with its MyiLibrary platform, has been gearing up for several months to introduce MyiLibrary to the public library market.
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