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Linda Bennett has co-ordinated this entry. This piece is by Professor Huw Morris, Manchester Metropolitan University.
The staff at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School have been experimenting with a range of print on demand and customised e-textbook solutions to support their courses, working with Pearson Education. An increasing number of the modules on offer on general business degrees and accounting and finance awards now have custom edited textbooks which bring together chapters from a range of Pearson titles under one cover. These books also frequently include case studies from Pearson’s extensive range of collaborative partners as well as the tutors own course notes.
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Posted on 20 Jun 2007 around 1pm by Huw
Linda Bennett has co-ordinated this entry. This piece is by Christoph Chesher, Taylor & Francis. This is in response to the piece by David Parkes ’The Codex Book‘.
eBooks for most publishers currently represent between 5 and 6% of their total print book sales and whilst this is now beginning to ramp up considerably (growth estimates of between 30 and 50% are not uncommon) eBooks in the vast majority of cases remain as David Parkes says "simply digitised texts". Despite the huge array of possibilities that the electronic world afford us there is of course a very old fashioned reason for this: saleability, costs vs income and the risk to reward ratio.
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Posted on 20 Jun 2007 around 1pm by pageboy
Linda Bennett has co-ordinated this entry. This piece is by David Parkes of Staffordshire University.
The codex book has been described as the perfect machine - power independent, extremely portable (for all but the most formidable of computing manuals), you can read it in the bath, on the train, airplane or the beach, lying down, sitting up, you can lend it, borrow one and - everyone knows how to access it and use it without too much training. But what of the book in the electronic environment? Ebooks - in fact there are very few real examples of ebooks - what exists are largely digitised texts, not really ebooks, not as we would like them to be realised anyway, not in a format which fully exploits the potential of the eworld.
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Posted on 20 Jun 2007 around 1pm by pageboy
