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Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally

February 22, 2010 /

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Readers can modify content on the Web, so why not in books?

A psychology book as seen on DynamicBooks. Macmillan plans to start selling 100 titles in this fashion in August.

In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes.

Professors will be able to reorganize or delete chapters; upload course syllabuses, notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete individual paragraphs, equations or illustrations.

By MOTOKO RICH

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22textbook.html?hpw

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