This probably won't impress e-book fans, but McGraw-Hill Higher Education and Zinio are teaming up to bring 150 or so
digital textbooks to computer-savvy students. The digital editions are available at about 50 percent off list price and can be viewed online on any computer with an Internet connection or downloaded to an individual's computer (not both).
While online viewing allows access from any computer, you'll be given a limited set number of page-views of the book and only one free option to print it out in full. The second option, e-book downloads, requires Zinio Reader to be installed on your Windows or Mac machine. A downloaded e-book cannot be transferred to another computer. As far as it appears it doesn't expire. You will be able to print your e-book pages as often as you want,
unless the publisher chooses to restrict printing rights. Some download Zinio books will offer flash, video and audio rich media content.
Zinio has a few samples online:
For more check out their
Web site and also this
Flash presentation.
Related: The
doomed to fail e-book experiment at Princeton and some other schools which was announced last week.