PublishingHub Blog - Text Books
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
Three authors, who are participating in the OpenBooks OpenMinds project have published an article in the BeJLT .
Philip Carpenter, Adrian Bullock and Jane Potter are authors of Textbooks in Teaching and Learning: The Views of Students and Their Teachers. The BeJLT is published 2 times each academic year as a web site. Each of the papers is also available for download as PDF.
The full article is available here in the Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching.
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Posted on 09 Nov 2006 around 1pm by pageboy
The OpenBooksOpenMinds project looks at research conducted by the Publisher’s Association into the use of textbooks in British Universities.
The results of the research and feedback received from students and lectures is available on this web site. This blog is a space for articles and news about the use of text books and other resources in higher education.
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Posted on 26 Sep 2006 around 12pm by pageboy
