Is Everybody Ready for eBooks?

Thursday, April 8, 2010 by Dianne Lorento

I've read several articles this week about online and e-books for the K-12 market. The current Texas governor recently stated that he doesn't see any reason for Texas to have printed books in four years. That's a pretty big statement in support of online learning.

What do you think about taking elementary education books, secondary school textbooks and the like and putting them in the digital world? At Kendall Hunt Publishing, we're big fans of digital learning for PreK-12. Let's face it, many printed textbooks are dated the minute they come off the press. School textbook publishers face this issue all the time. But if your "books" are online, especially if they're in a learning portal that can be continually updated, students can learn about the latest discovery in science without waiting for the next printing of their high school science textbook. That's only one of the many benefits to digital learning.

Do your schools use all printed material? Or a combination of print and digital?

Comments for Is Everybody Ready for eBooks?

Friday, August 20, 2010 by Martha Valencia :
Digital textbooks are starting to be used more widely. Unfortunately the way textbooks are sold and published varies greatly and copyright issues are not currently where they need to be or online portal access to the content to facilitate school wide implementation of digital textbooks. CA is moving in that direction but more legislation needs to be written to facilitate a District wide implementation and use of Digital textbooks so that individual school Districts do not need to negotiate copyright release forms each time they go to try to use digital content. So the move is in place the infrastructure to make a shift is not.

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