he e-book angle: Publishers of traditional textbooks aren’t just competing against "free" on the Web. They’re also competing against the Web’s interactivity, which tools such as Diiago can enhance. If ed publishers are smart, they’ll not just ask the
IDPF to come up with an annotations standard for .epub—they’ll actually speed up the process and pay the group for the development of a standard.
Dorn, editor of
Education Policy Analysis Archives, is himself urging that the IDPF standard include annotation.
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