Re: [LM_NET] TECH Are textbooks available for e-readers or netbooks?

[Mark Williams <markwilliams@MAKAW.NET>]

At 02:07 PM 8/1/2010, you wrote:
>At any level--the elem or jhs or hs, are textbooks available for e-readers?
>If you are working in a school where e-textbooks have been 
>purchased, how have they worked out?

A very few textbooks are available for e-readers.  The main problem 
is that textbooks tend to make heavy use of color, and no e-readers 
(except the iPad, which arguably isn't an e-reader per se) have color 
screens.  Color images are either ignored, or rendered in grayscale, 
usually 16 shade.  Screen size is also an issue.

I ran across this article that might be of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/technology/01ping.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Mark 

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