Sentences with phrase «open textbook industry»
The free and open textbook industry has made great strides in the past few years.
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Open source software, the public domain programming innovation that has revolutionized the software industry, is now poised to shake up the textbook market.
«Textbooks in higher - education are moving beyond the static dimension of the printed page and the book - under - glass e-books people are accustomed to,» said Kent Freeman, Chief Operating Officer, VitalSource Technologies, Inc. «As publishers create rich interactive learning experiences for institutions and students, they should be taking advantage of EPUB and the flexibility and benefits that the open industry standard affords.
From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.