E-Textbook Design Issues, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Dark

PCWorld: "... while ordinary e-books are catching on like wildfire--Amazon reported that in July Kindle e-books outsold hardcover books--e-textbooks are not yet pervasive at traditional universities. The medium presents a unique set of problems. 'Textbooks are the most complex e-book that there is out there, with everything from pagination, notation, searching and indexing, copy/paste, the ability to post to social media, and then multimedia like video, audio, pictures, and slideshows… An e-textbook has to put them all in one package and do them well,' says Josh Koppel, whose company, ScrollMotion, is working with publishers to bring texts to the iPad."