01-06-2010, 02:41 PM | #1 | |
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McGraw-Hill digital textbooks coming to the Entourage Edge
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It's not clearly stated, but it sound like the McGraw-Hill textbooks in the Edge store will be the ones created for McGraw-Hill Connect. I've discussed my misgivings with the new format over here. I don't like that they created a new format, but if it is coming to the Edge, then this has the potential of being great news for students. |
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01-06-2010, 07:04 PM | #2 |
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A new format is definitely a step backwards. We've been moving toward a standard (ePUB), and anything that hinders that is a bad thing.
It may be that ePUB isn't flexible enough to handle complex text books (lots of pics and text and equations), but it's basically html, so some formatting would lose, but it should work. -Pie |
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01-06-2010, 07:13 PM | #3 | |
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01-06-2010, 07:53 PM | #4 |
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So you're saying it will be ePUB or some other universal e-Reader capable format... PDF?
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01-06-2010, 09:47 PM | #5 |
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I have no idea what the format will be. I was speculating. TBH, my guess is it will be Epub becuase there is not technical reason why epub can't include color images and video and sound clips. I'm going to stop by tomorrow and ask.
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I was just checking the faqs and noticed that the edge will use Adobe's ePub Content Server:
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The Edge is still using RM 9. |
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01-09-2010, 10:40 PM | #8 |
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Oh, I know. I was speaking from a more practical point of view. Do you know if they plan on updating to 9.1?
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I don't know yet.
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