eTextbooks - Follett's CafeScribe

NYTimes.com: "Isabella Hinds is director of digital content at the Follett Higher Education Group, which runs over 800 college bookstores in the USA. It also owns a digital textbook program called CafeScribe, used by over 400 education institutions in the US. I asked Hinds how CafeScribe is used currently. Hinds told us that CafeScribe is mostly used on PCs, Macs and netbooks. She cited pricing issues for iPad (students can't afford them) and the relative lack of functionality in current eReaders. Specifically, she cited color, pagination and illustration as features that the current crop of eReaders don't do well enough for the eTextbook market. This echoes our conclusions from over a year ago, when we analyzed why Kindle wasn't a good choice for eTextbooks."