Comments on: VitalSource software beefs up textbook-related capabilities, adds Columbia U. Press as client http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vitalsource-beefs-up-textbook-related-capabilities-adds-columbia-u-as-textbook-client/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: educational software » VitalSource software beefs up textbook-related capabilities, adds Columbia U. Press as client http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vitalsource-beefs-up-textbook-related-capabilities-adds-columbia-u-as-textbook-client/comment-page-1/#comment-552470 educational software » VitalSource software beefs up textbook-related capabilities, adds Columbia U. Press as client Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:43:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7165#comment-552470 [...] mary wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt [...] [...] mary wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt [...]

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vitalsource-beefs-up-textbook-related-capabilities-adds-columbia-u-as-textbook-client/comment-page-1/#comment-549050 David Rothman Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:54:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7165#comment-549050 Bob on VitalSource: The good folks at VitalSouce read the TeleBlog and I hope they'll support .epub to the max. I do know they plan to offer some kind of support, but I'd welcome further details from 'em. What's more, I hope they'll share with us a wish list for .epub. - David Bob on VitalSource: The good folks at VitalSouce read the TeleBlog and I hope they’ll support .epub to the max. I do know they plan to offer some kind of support, but I’d welcome further details from ‘em. What’s more, I hope they’ll share with us a wish list for .epub. – David

]]> By: Bob Martinengo http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vitalsource-beefs-up-textbook-related-capabilities-adds-columbia-u-as-textbook-client/comment-page-1/#comment-549039 Bob Martinengo Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:40:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7165#comment-549039 One big fly in the ointment is that this is yet another format to deal with. As nifty as it may be, there is only a certain amount of tech real people can absorb at a given time before going bonkers. See, at the same time Columbia is doing this, you have SafariX from Pearson, iChapters from Cengage, that weird Zinnio magazine format for some other textbooks, 'Sealed Media' PDFs, and who knows what else. Add to that the disability folks making noise about DAISY, audiobooks, and braille. Plus NIMAS for K-12 textbooks. Chaos is too kind a word to describe the current situation. One big fly in the ointment is that this is yet another format to deal with. As nifty as it may be, there is only a certain amount of tech real people can absorb at a given time before going bonkers.

See, at the same time Columbia is doing this, you have SafariX from Pearson, iChapters from Cengage, that weird Zinnio magazine format for some other textbooks, ‘Sealed Media’ PDFs, and who knows what else.

Add to that the disability folks making noise about DAISY, audiobooks, and braille. Plus NIMAS for K-12 textbooks. Chaos is too kind a word to describe the current situation.

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