Not exact matches
Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder
of a
textbook example
of eisegesis (
reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (
reading «
out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).
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.
I don't think it's fair to lump all people
reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many
of them are victims
of higher institutions
of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price
of a hardcover
textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming
out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.
Copia demonstrated its social
reading platform and rolled
out its college
textbook interactivity, BookTracks offered samples
of its fully integrated audio enhancements, and a variety
of companies like start - ups BiblioCrunch and Robot Media demonstrated tools that authors and readers can use to develop their own ebooks and app books.
We often think
of digital
textbooks as being
read on iPads, and Apple rolled
out iBooks Author, which lets users create
textbooks and other interactive ebooks, in 2012.
For years e-book piracy was the exclusive province
of the determined few willing to ferret
out mostly nerdy
textbook titles from the Internet's dark alleys and
read them on their PC.
He's obviously not
read my article on «The Future
of Educational Publishing,» which points
out very clearly that the
textbook publishing industry is far beyond requiring a Kindle to enable their future ventures.
For people who are actually interested in finding
out how this stuff works in detail a short
reading list
of 3 - 5
textbooks would be a * lot * more useful than a mass
of code.
There's very little I learn by just
reading it
out of a book... I just get bored
out of my mind
reading stuff in
textbooks.
This course would require
reading out of a certain chapter for that week's assignments, as well as work or
textbook homework over the material covered in the chapter.