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Although many small presses allow unlimited e-book access to libraries, Random House is the only one of the \"Big Six\" publishers to do so -- and it recently increased its prices significantly, \"by 100-200% in March 2012,\" according to the ALA's new report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most e-books come with embedded software that creates restrictions on how they can be used, such as allowing only one library patron to borrow each copy at a time. 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In Dover, Mass., the library has installed QR codes around town that link signs at the market and playground to community information and services. Seattle Public Library offers live chats with librarians 24 hours a day getting answers to reference questions and live homework help.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It also mentioned an initiative at the main Chicago library called YOUmedia that \"lets any teen with a city library card have in-house access to computers plus video and audio recording equipment to create their own content with the help of a mentor. 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HarperCollins allows each copy of its e-books to be loaned up to 26 times, which a recent press release from the American Library Association described as \"arbitrary.\" The libraries then must buy the book again at a lower price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin do not sell e-book versions of their titles to libraries, while Hachette refuses to sell its newest e-books to libraries. Although many small presses allow unlimited e-book access to libraries, Random House is the only one of the \"Big Six\" publishers to do so -- and it recently increased its prices significantly, \"by 100-200% in March 2012,\" according to the ALA's new report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most e-books come with embedded software that creates restrictions on how they can be used, such as allowing only one library patron to borrow each copy at a time. 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Laws and contracts always seem to lag behind new technological innovations. But, it will get settled. Librarians, library service organizations, and others are engaged in trying to make sure the eventual terms and conditions for the use of digital books are ones that are fair to all involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the moment, however, nothing is settled, as two industries with their backs against the wall struggle to reach a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>E-READER PETTING ZOOS, DIGITAL BOOKMOBILES\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Despite libraries' impasse with publishers over restricted e-book use, many are forging ahead in the digital realm, offering patrons new services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the ALA's recent report, \"The proportion of U.S. libraries that made e-books available almost doubled over the past five years, climbing from 38.3 percent in 2007 to 67.2 percent in 2011.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samantha Becker, the research project manager of the \u003ca href=\"http://tascha.washington.edu/usimpact/\">U.S. IMPACT Study at the University of Washington's Information School\u003c/a>, noted, \"The technology environment in libraries has provided a wonderful opportunity to preserve collections and enhance access to them through digitization, which many libraries are doing with out-of-print and local collections or digital artifacts. 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Thorny issues over \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/school-libraries-struggle-with-e-book-loans/\">who can use the books\u003c/a> when students rent digital versions, how the growing movement of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/california-bill-pushes-for-free-online-college-books/\">free, online textbooks will be incorporated \u003c/a>into college curriculum, and figuring out \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/turning-static-text-into-interactive-discussions/\">how to share notes online\u003c/a> are just a few important unknowns that are still being hammered out as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/11/why-arent-students-using-e-books/\">college students think about using ebooks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/iPads-for-College-Classrooms-/126681/\">students still complain about \u003c/a>using iPads (slow, cumbersome typing, for one thing), some English literature college professors are finding creative ways of using its multi-media uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.stonehill.edu/x8275.xml\">Scott Cohen,\u003c/a> an English professor at Stonehill Colllege, located about 30 miles southwest of Boston, is in his second year of implementing the iPad into his lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The iPad really helps move between different kinds of texts and material, visual, cinematic, written, audio, etcetera,” Cohen said. “Students love them, beyond just being a new shiny device.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Cohen received a grant from the college’s Center for Teacher and Learning to purchase three iPads as part of a pilot program in his Storytelling in the Age of Information class.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“The iPad really helps move between different kinds of texts and material, visual, cinematic, written, audio.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen incorporates the popular NPR public radio show \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org\">This American Life\u003c/a> in his classes, and using the iPad allows the class to move between audio clips and an annotated transcript of the story that can be projected on a screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said students can initiate these sequences and bookmark them, efficiently saving them for future reference or emailing them to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The iPad allows Cohen and his students to capitalize on the “improvisational” nature of class, as they can call up passages more quickly or even play a clip from the radio show to counter a point \u003c!--more-->made by a classmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The iPad works like a community slate, passed around the room, collecting and collating students' thoughts about a given topic, a line of text, or quotation under investigation,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And students prefer the iPad to laptops, he said, because the latter tends to isolate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, one of the big criticisms of the iPad -- that it’s mostly a single application device -- is an advantage for Cohen, as it forces students to focus on a particular task, instead of say, chatting on Gmail or scrolling through Facebook posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, the University of Virginia English Department recently completed a three-semester pilot program using iPads in the classroom along with a \u003ca href=\"https://wiki.shanti.virginia.edu/display/ENGANTH/ENGL+3820+iPad+Course-Pack\">wiki-syllabus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/ipad/\">blog.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RELATED READING\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/11/why-arent-students-using-e-books/\">WHY AREN'T STUDENTS USING E-BOOKS?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/blowing-out-the-digital-book-as-we-know-it/\">BLOWING OUT THE DIGITAL TEXTBOOK AS WE KNOW IT\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/california-bill-pushes-for-free-online-college-books/\">CALIFORNIA PUSHES FOR FREE, ONLINE TEXTBOOKS\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/school-libraries-struggle-with-e-book-loans/\">SCHOOL LIBRARIES STRUGGLE WITH E-BOOK LOANS\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/turning-static-text-into-interactive-discussions/\">TURNING STATIC TEXT INTO INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In addition to commenting on the coursework, some students posted about the experience of swiping pages instead of leafing through them. One student wrote: “Maybe it's just my own somewhat utopian view of myself sitting outside on a beautiful day with the breeze blowing reading these great works on… an iPad?.... I do not wish to bash the very existence of the iPad. I do think its invention is a great thing, but for English classes I’ve been so conditioned to read from a book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WAITING FOR \"THE REVOLUTION\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen's use of the This American Life program is still an exception in the college landscape. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18547\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 423px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquette/4235591661/sizes/z/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-18547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/4235591661_7de977b8cf_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/4235591661_7de977b8cf_z.jpg 423w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/4235591661_7de977b8cf_z-400x355.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/4235591661_7de977b8cf_z-320x284.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch5>By Dolores Gende\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Apple's iBooks2 and authoring app has created big waves in education circles. But smart educators don't necessarily need Apple's slick devices and software to create their own books. How educators think of content \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_curation\">curation\u003c/a> in the classroom is enough to change their reliance on print textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/open-education-resources/\">open education movement\u003c/a> continues to grow and become an even more rich trove of resources, teachers can use the content to make their own interactive textbooks. It might seem daunting, but the availability of quality materials online and the power of tapping into personal learning networks should make it easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how to create a digital textbook and strategies for involving the students in its development in three steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">1. \u003cstrong>AGGREGATION\u003c/strong>.\u003c/span> Gather all your sources of information. The best way to aggregate content is through social bookmarking with great online tools like \u003ca href=\"http://www.delicious.com/dgende\">Delicious\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.diigo.com/user/dgende\">Diigo\u003c/a>, which allow you to bookmark sites that can be seen and shared online. As Diigo's web site explains it, the site \"allows teachers to highlight critical features within text and images and write comments directly on the web pages, to collect and organize series of web pages and web sites into coherent and thematic sets, and to facilitate online conversations within the context of the materials themselves. (\u003ca href=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/12687333?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\">Watch this video\u003c/a> to see how to do this step-by-step.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers can work with colleagues within their subject area departments and beyond the walls of the classroom to aggregate resources through social bookmarking. Invaluable sources of \u003c!--more-->information for professional learning come through Personal Learning Networks (PLN) in \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#%21/dgende\">Twitter \u003c/a> and from RSS feeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also try \u003ca href=\"http://paper.li/\">Paper.li\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://tweetedtimes.com/\">The Twitted Times\u003c/a>\u003ca>, \u003c/a>which will sift through your connections’ resources and organize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">\u003cstrong>2. CURATION\u003c/strong>.\u003c/span> While aggregation is collecting Web sites, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/scoop-it/\">the process of curation \u003c/a>involves a deeper analysis of those sites to select the ones that have the most relevant information for a particular topic. Use your subject area syllabus, state standards or learning objectives to hand pick the content for a particular unit of study. 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Check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.webadvantage.net/webadblog/30-plus-cool-content-curation-tools-for-personal-professional-use-3922\">30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal and Professional Use\u003c/a>. And if you're using an iPad, take a look at these \u003ca>curation apps.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">\u003cstrong>3. CREATION. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>This is the most important (and fun) part of the process.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong> You can create an online repository using a wiki digital tool such as \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/\">Google Sites\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://pbworks.com/education\">PBworks\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers\">Wikispaces\u003c/a> that organize your resources neatly. You could also use \u003ca href=\"http://www.livebinders.com/\">LiveBinders\u003c/a> to select a template that allows you to include text for each of your resources. 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Though it can only be used on Macs, the free app offers a drag-and-drop template that can be customized with images, interactive diagrams and videos to create a polished book.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TARGETING YOUR READERS\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs you put your book together, consider some of these questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>How are learners going to use the information?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will they demonstrate what they've learned?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Are they completing a document, creating an outline or answering a set of questions?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What are the assessments associated with the material?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TEACHER AND LEARNER ROLES\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe table below compares and contrasts the elements of the various levels of involvement of teachers and learners in the process of creating a textbook. 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Use the most powerful potential of Web tools to make your textbook engaging by using images, videos and \u003ca href=\"http://journeyintech.blogspot.com/2011/04/science-simulations-virtual-learning.html\">simulations\u003c/a>.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most user-friendly tools to post resources for your course is \u003ca href=\"http://www.livebinders.com/\">LiveBinders\u003c/a>. Another great tool for curation is \u003ca href=\"www.scoop.it/\">Scoop-it!\u003c/a>, which allows you to create your own online magazine. (See how articles related to physics are curated on Scoop-it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.scoop.it/t/physicslearn\">PhysicsLearn\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find many more useful tools for curation. Check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.webadvantage.net/webadblog/30-plus-cool-content-curation-tools-for-personal-professional-use-3922\">30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal and Professional Use\u003c/a>. And if you're using an iPad, take a look at these \u003ca>curation apps.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">\u003cstrong>3. CREATION. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>This is the most important (and fun) part of the process.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong> You can create an online repository using a wiki digital tool such as \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/\">Google Sites\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://pbworks.com/education\">PBworks\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers\">Wikispaces\u003c/a> that organize your resources neatly. You could also use \u003ca href=\"http://www.livebinders.com/\">LiveBinders\u003c/a> to select a template that allows you to include text for each of your resources. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4304\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/11/alaska-educator-makes-the-case-for-throwing-out-textbooks/1375685165_0026af5223_z/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4304\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-4304\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2010/11/1375685165_0026af5223_z-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's been speculation for months now -- at least since the release of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.librarything.com/work/11434526/editions/\">Steve Jobs biography\u003c/a> -- about Apple's plans to take on the textbook publishing industry. And today at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, we finally got a glimpse of what the company has been planning since long before the death of its co-founder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Apple's Phil Schiller noted in his opening remarks today, \"Education is deep in our DNA… and has been since the very beginning.\" And while that may be true, it was one of the company's most recent inventions -- the iPad -- that took center stage today as the ideal learning device, with Apple touting kids' (of all ages) love and desire for the tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple boasted the adoption that iPads have already seen -- some 1.5 million iPads already in use at educational institutions, with over 1000 schools having 1:1 iPad programs. Apple also noted the rich app ecosystem that's been built around the iPad as a learning device -- over 20,000 educational apps made specifically for the device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the mantra throughout the event was \"iPad, iPad, iPad,\" the focus of much of today's event was on textbooks -- digital textbooks -- and Apple's insistence that these are \"not always the ideal learning tool.\" Apple unveiled several new tools that it argued would move the \"great content\" found in textbooks into a new, interactive, durable, portable format -- in other words, move the textbooks onto the iPad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reading\u003c/strong>: Apple introduced iBooks2, an update to its iOS e-book app (which sadly still isn't accessible on Macs, let alone on Windows machines) that offers a new category specially for interactive digital textbooks. These new e-textbooks contain many of the features we've been more accustomed to seeing in interactive e-book apps rather than in the iBookstore -- videos, photos, \u003c!--more-->and 3D diagrams, as well as an easy way to highlight passages and take notes. The latter, along with glossary terms, can be transformed into flash cards for studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of today's news, Apple announced it was partnering with the Big Three textbook publishers -- Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Many of their newly redesigned textbooks are available to purchase today. These new textbooks will cost no more than $14.99, Apple promises, and they'll be owned by students individually (rather than by the schools and instead of being shared by multiple students across multiple classes and years). That's a substantial shift to how textbooks are bought and distributed, particularly at the K-12 level, and it's not quite clear how schools or students will handle these purchases or how this will impact budgeting decisions. After all, schools tend to procure textbooks with the understanding that they'll last for at least 5 years. That does mean that the content can be out-dated, something that these digital textbooks are meant to combat. But the trade-off, of course, will be purchasing iPads and now purchasing annual updates to books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18289\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/did-apple-just-reinvent-the-textbook/apple_demo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18289\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-18289 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Apple_demo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Apple_demo.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Apple_demo-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Apple_demo-320x239.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Writing\u003c/strong>: Apple also introduced a new piece of software to allow \"anyone\" to build their own interactive e-books: iBooks Author. While \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/apple-to-announce-tools-platform-to-digitally-destroy-textbook-publishing.ars\">Ars Technica speculated\u003c/a> prior to today's news that this would be a \"Garageband for E-Books,\" that doesn't seem like quite the right description. It's more akin to iWorks for e-books -- an authoring tool that greatly facilitates the layout of e-book content. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to add text, photos, video, Keynote slides, and even HTML widgets to build an iBook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have \"anyone\" in quotes because, for the time being at least, this app is Mac (OS X) only. The app itself is free, and after building an e-book, one can upload it to the iBookstore. The textbooks that are built to sell or give away in the iBookstore will be subject to a review process, Apple says, and the company will take its normal \"cut\" of sales as well as demand exclusivity to their sale. One can bypass the iBookstore by simply emailing the file to another person, who'll be able to open it with the iBook app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Courseware\u003c/strong>: In addition to the new iBooks and iBooks Author apps, Apple also announced a new app for iTunes U. Long a hidden gem of the iTunes Store, iTunes U has provided a way for universities and other educational institutions to distribute course content -- primarily lecture videos -- via iTunes. With over 500,000 pieces of audio and visual content, Apple says that iTunes U is the \"largest catalog of free educational content.\" The new iTunes U app adds several new features to the platform, in Apple's words, to \"let teachers do a lot more\" including offering \"full online courses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's close to an online learning management system, although it's worth noting here that since the content on iTunes U has mostly been free and open, that there is no process here for submitting assignments or grades. And much like the new iTextbooks, what's missing here is a \"social\" component. The app does allow instructors to upload full course packages, and starting today K-12 teachers will also be able to post their materials to the iTunes U ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18292\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/did-apple-just-reinvent-the-textbook/itunes_u/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18292\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-18292\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/itunes_u.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/itunes_u.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/itunes_u-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/itunes_u-320x239.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Game-changer?\u003c/strong>: Apple's announcements are often described in hyperbolic terms: \"revolutionary,\" for example. I'm not sure that we can necessarily apply that adjective here. Considering the involvement of the three largest education publishers -- a group that currently controls 90% of the textbook market -- I don't think we can pronounce the textbook industry \"digitally disrupted.\" Rather, Apple has strengthened its relationship with these publishers who are now able to point to content that they've specifically designed to work on the iPad. Their content will continue to appear in other digital formats too, of course, and will likely still be available via other e-textbook apps (such as Inkling and Kno and CourseSmart).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability to easily create e-books with the new iBooks Author app does feel like an important innovation, and if Apple can steer authors (students and teachers and \"anyone\") to its iBookstore, then it will be in a better position to compete with Amazon's self-publishing offerings. That's not necessarily a game-changer for education, however; rather it's about controlling the future of e-book creation and distribution, something that Apple must compete with Amazon over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a future that revolves around the Apple publishing and app ecosystem, and it's a future that relies on Apple hardware too -- Macs and iPads. While all of this might make it easier to build, buy, and read beautiful interactive textbooks with these new \"free\" software tools, that hardware investment might be something that causes a lot of schools to balk.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But the trade-off, of course, will be purchasing iPads and now purchasing annual updates to books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18289\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/did-apple-just-reinvent-the-textbook/apple_demo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18289\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-18289 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Apple_demo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Apple_demo.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Apple_demo-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Apple_demo-320x239.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Writing\u003c/strong>: Apple also introduced a new piece of software to allow \"anyone\" to build their own interactive e-books: iBooks Author. While \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/apple-to-announce-tools-platform-to-digitally-destroy-textbook-publishing.ars\">Ars Technica speculated\u003c/a> prior to today's news that this would be a \"Garageband for E-Books,\" that doesn't seem like quite the right description. It's more akin to iWorks for e-books -- an authoring tool that greatly facilitates the layout of e-book content. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to add text, photos, video, Keynote slides, and even HTML widgets to build an iBook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have \"anyone\" in quotes because, for the time being at least, this app is Mac (OS X) only. The app itself is free, and after building an e-book, one can upload it to the iBookstore. The textbooks that are built to sell or give away in the iBookstore will be subject to a review process, Apple says, and the company will take its normal \"cut\" of sales as well as demand exclusivity to their sale. 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With over 500,000 pieces of audio and visual content, Apple says that iTunes U is the \"largest catalog of free educational content.\" The new iTunes U app adds several new features to the platform, in Apple's words, to \"let teachers do a lot more\" including offering \"full online courses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's close to an online learning management system, although it's worth noting here that since the content on iTunes U has mostly been free and open, that there is no process here for submitting assignments or grades. And much like the new iTextbooks, what's missing here is a \"social\" component. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/calliope/430307600/sizes/z/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17567\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/430307600_687bd2d08a_z-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr: Muffet\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/jenny-shank/\">Jenny Shank\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Is it possible to personalize the gift of an e-book?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Book Store, if he had any ideas, and he was as stumped as I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not sure what the best way to personalize an e-book would be,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His store and many other independent bookstores sell Google e-books, which are\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>usually the same price as e-books available for Kindle, and can be used on multiple platforms. But you can't use a store gift certificate to purchase them because buying the e-book is a transaction with Google, and Google doesn't accept indie bookstore gift cards. Currently, there isn't a way to give an e-book as a gift from most independent bookstores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is possible to give a Kindle e-book as a present from Amazon. According to Amazon's FAQ on the subject, you don't need to own a Kindle to give someone a Kindle e-book gift: \"Kindle books can be given and received by anyone with an e-mail address.\" You can schedule the date the e-book gift is delivered to the recipient, and if the recipient isn't happy with your selection, he or she can exchange it for another.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Even if people have e-readers, they want to give a physical book, because it's so impersonal giving e-books.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As for Barnes & Noble's Nook books, you can't give someone a specific Nook book, but you cangive them a Barnes & Noble gift card to purchase Nook books, or you can lend a Nook book from one reader to another. Although you can give a friend specific songs from iTunes, that isn't possible yet for iBooks -- the only way to give an iBook is through an iTunes gift card or certificate. It's all a little confusing, because each type of e-book and e-reader has its own rules. Last month, Open Road Media launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.openroadmedia.com/giftofe/\">a website with instructions\u003c/a> on how to give e-books from Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and the Sony Reader Store.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, these digital transactions via email feel a little chilly to me. One year I gave someone a subscription to Netflix, and almost a year later I received an email that said the person never used the credit that was about to expire, which made me feel like I had never given them a gift at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>PRINT BOOKS IS STILL KING\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Cathy Langer, lead buyer at the Tattered Cover, who said, \"I contend that even if people have e-readers, they want to give a physical book, because it's so impersonal giving e-books. And this was actually proven with several customers I've helped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told her that I am leaning toward giving actual books to friends and family that have e-readers, and she said that my thoughts on this subject are typical. \"I've been predicting almost since last Christmas that I'm not afraid of the holiday season. People ordering off of Amazon has cut into our business to some extent, no matter what. But even though people are getting e-readers for Christmas and Hanukkah, when someone wants to give a gift of a book, they want to give the gift of a physical book. Even though there are e-readers in millions of households, the gift-giving vehicle is still the physical book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Langer gave some examples of how this dynamic has played out among customers at the Tattered Cover that she's helped. \"I had a customer who wanted two copies of 'Ready Player One' [by Ernest Cline], which is a futuristic, hip novel from Random House that was big this fall. He said, 'I read it on my Kindle, and I loved it, so I want to give it as gifts.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's almost as if the e-book has become the lower-priced preview mechanism for readers who might then go onto buy the physical book for themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for kids, although there are some wonderful interactive e-book programs, printed books still are the rule. Langer said, \"A couple days ago, there was a little girl -- maybe 5 years old -- traipsing through the store with her grandfather, and they were talking about a book. He said, 'Well, we can get that for you on your Kindle,' and she said, 'No, Grandpa, I want a real book.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Langer said, \"Giving books as gifts is a very strong, personal statement. It's an object of love and affection and real meaning. It's an object rather than just a commodity of words.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I agree -- for this year, I'm sticking with printed books for gifts. In future years, who knows? 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Follow \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#%21/pbsmediashift\">@PBSMediaShift\u003c/a> for Twitter updates, or join us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mediashift\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is possible to give a Kindle e-book as a present from Amazon. According to Amazon's FAQ on the subject, you don't need to own a Kindle to give someone a Kindle e-book gift: \"Kindle books can be given and received by anyone with an e-mail address.\" You can schedule the date the e-book gift is delivered to the recipient, and if the recipient isn't happy with your selection, he or she can exchange it for another.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Even if people have e-readers, they want to give a physical book, because it's so impersonal giving e-books.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As for Barnes & Noble's Nook books, you can't give someone a specific Nook book, but you cangive them a Barnes & Noble gift card to purchase Nook books, or you can lend a Nook book from one reader to another. Although you can give a friend specific songs from iTunes, that isn't possible yet for iBooks -- the only way to give an iBook is through an iTunes gift card or certificate. It's all a little confusing, because each type of e-book and e-reader has its own rules. Last month, Open Road Media launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.openroadmedia.com/giftofe/\">a website with instructions\u003c/a> on how to give e-books from Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and the Sony Reader Store.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, these digital transactions via email feel a little chilly to me. One year I gave someone a subscription to Netflix, and almost a year later I received an email that said the person never used the credit that was about to expire, which made me feel like I had never given them a gift at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>PRINT BOOKS IS STILL KING\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Cathy Langer, lead buyer at the Tattered Cover, who said, \"I contend that even if people have e-readers, they want to give a physical book, because it's so impersonal giving e-books. And this was actually proven with several customers I've helped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told her that I am leaning toward giving actual books to friends and family that have e-readers, and she said that my thoughts on this subject are typical. \"I've been predicting almost since last Christmas that I'm not afraid of the holiday season. People ordering off of Amazon has cut into our business to some extent, no matter what. But even though people are getting e-readers for Christmas and Hanukkah, when someone wants to give a gift of a book, they want to give the gift of a physical book. Even though there are e-readers in millions of households, the gift-giving vehicle is still the physical book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Langer gave some examples of how this dynamic has played out among customers at the Tattered Cover that she's helped. \"I had a customer who wanted two copies of 'Ready Player One' [by Ernest Cline], which is a futuristic, hip novel from Random House that was big this fall. He said, 'I read it on my Kindle, and I loved it, so I want to give it as gifts.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's almost as if the e-book has become the lower-priced preview mechanism for readers who might then go onto buy the physical book for themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for kids, although there are some wonderful interactive e-book programs, printed books still are the rule. Langer said, \"A couple days ago, there was a little girl -- maybe 5 years old -- traipsing through the store with her grandfather, and they were talking about a book. He said, 'Well, we can get that for you on your Kindle,' and she said, 'No, Grandpa, I want a real book.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Langer said, \"Giving books as gifts is a very strong, personal statement. It's an object of love and affection and real meaning. It's an object rather than just a commodity of words.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I agree -- for this year, I'm sticking with printed books for gifts. In future years, who knows? But as long as no one invents digital beer, there will always be some presents under the Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jenny Shank is the is the author of the novel \"The Ringer\" (The Permanent Press, 2011), a finalist for the \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/mRhXT4\">Reading the West Book Awards\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/the-trouble-with-gifting-an-e-book/pbs-mediashift-logo-final-11/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17570\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17570\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/pbs-mediashift-logo-final1-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\">\u003c/a>Part of this story was originally published by\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/05/childrens-magazines-cater-to-true-early-adopters-with-mobile-apps137.html\"> PBS MediaShift\u003c/a>, covering the intersection of \u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>media and technology. 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More than 12 percent of American adults \u003ca href=\"http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-27/tech/tablets.vs.ereaders_1_e-reader-barnes-noble-s-nook-tablet-computer?_s=PM:TECH\">owned an e-reader as of May\u003c/a>, according to a Pew study, and 8 percent owned tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the books being read on those devices were conceived originally for print. Words and ideas have been designed to fit on the physical page. Even for those books that do include videos or audio recordings, they've typically been added as afterthoughts, or as ancillary pieces to the primary content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not even close to maximizing the potential of the tablet,\" said MacInnis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While tablets and e-readers duke it out for the market share, Inkling is working on blowing out the digital book as we know it. Though the company started by digitally rendering existing print textbooks only for the iPad -- currently, there are about 100 book titles -- it's poised to become a major player in the publishing industry. But rather than creating content, the tech company will provide the platform that can transcend any device, whether that's an iPad, a Kindle -- or even a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BEYOND EDUCATIONAL BOOKS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, all of Inkling's titles are in education, but it's starting to dabble beyond that market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"It's not even close to maximizing the potential of the tablet.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Inkling engineering is being used to create digital books out of blogs. With licensing from Inkling, \u003ca href=\"http://openairpub.com\">Open Air Publishing\u003c/a> just released a new cookbook, \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/17/hesser-food52-cookbook-ipad/\">\u003cstrong>Food52 Holiday Recipe & Survival Guide\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, derived from \u003ca href=\"http://food52.com/\">a blog\u003c/a> written by former \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> writers Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, \u003c!--more-->and another called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://openairpub.com/speakeasy-cocktails/\">\u003cstrong>Speakeasy Cocktails\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Both titles have received \u003ca href=\"http://openairpub.com/press\">rave reviews\u003c/a> for their luscious images, explanatory videos, and ease of use. \"The multimedia features elevate it from a how-to guide to something rivaling a small group class,\" \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2011/08/25/open-air-publishing/\">writes Mashable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inkling also produced the epic \u003ca href=\"https://www.inkling.com/store/professional-chef-cia-9th/\">\u003cem>The Professional Chef\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by the Culinary Institute of America. The book in its entirety costs $50, but you can also purchase individual chapters for $3 a piece. The new model makes book buying much like buying music -- choose only the pieces you like best. MacInnis fluidly demonstrates how to float from one chapter to the next, launch videos, close in on images, tap on sidebars and recipe instructions. It's like watching a magician performing sleight-of-hand tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the books Inkling has created thus far are what MacInnis calls a \"means to an end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s all a way for us to illustrate for the world what’s possible. Simple things like rendering images into 3D, we can scale pretty well. But when you get to thinking about the hierarchy of knowledge you have to traverse in order to be an expert in a specific topic, you start to build the book very differently than you would have done in print,\" he said. \"We can take a textbook to an Inkling title in six weeks, but we can't create a pure Inkling experience in six weeks, because there’s no shortcut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17279\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/Screen-shot-2011-12-02-at-12.48.03-PM-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Inkling\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Inkling is in the midst of producing multiple projects that will take years to create because they're building native digital content. \"You'll see stuff that will be much more beautiful and much more interesting in structure,\" he said, though he would not elaborate further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TABLET OR E-READER?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything we’ve done is platform agnostic,\" MacInnis said. The underlying information allowing the iPad to render, for example, the 3D molecule in its science books is not specific to the iPad. \"It’s a piece of software for the iPad, but there’s another piece of software that will be able to render that in a Web browser or in a different device.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacInnis is keeping a close eye on the tablet and e-reader market, but he points out one very obvious extension: \"We’re constantly looking at the world of digital readers, the Nook color, Kindle Fire, some of the Google devices. It’s all super interesting to us,\" he said. \"But there’s one device that everyone has, which is a laptop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means when Inkling launches books for other platforms (though the timing has yet to be determined), all the content it's produced until now -- everything from Erik Foner's history book \u003cem>Give Me Liberty!\u003c/em> to the just released \u003ca href=\"https://www.inkling.com/store/living-with-art-mark-getlein-9th/\">\u003cem>Living With Art\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- will instantly be available in these other platforms, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COMING TO K-12, TOO?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though most of the titles under Inkling's belt are geared for higher education, MacInnis sees the K-12 market as ripe for the medium. \"We fully expect that Inkling will be in the K-12 world,\" he said. \"It’s already in use in that space, and we plan to make ourselves known to that audience more aggressively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inkling currently works with Pearson, McGraw Hill, and WW Norton, all of which have titles in K-12 space. And private prep schools use Inkling titles for their advanced placement courses. \"They’re deploying the technology already, making substantial investments in devices, so we’re being very opportunistic about it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what happens in the K-12 realm depends on what publishers decide to do. \"What features the Inkling platform supports -- monitoring and reporting, the sorts of things you need in a controlled K-12 environment -- we may or may not choose to do depending on where the market pulls us,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>THE VALUE OF DIGITAL IN LEARNING\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As lovely as they are to behold and consume, the million-dollar question is whether Inkling books provide more value to the learning process than print books. The company addresses this in different ways, allowing for easy searching, for social-networked note-taking and highlighting to allow for robust group discussions online, and quizzes and self-assessment tools so learners know when they're ready to move on to the next chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is there any evidence showing students actually perform better using Inkling books? \"We want to get better at understanding the real measurable educational outcomes that occurs as a result of using inkling,\" MacInnis said. To that end, the Virginia Department of Education recently conducted a program that showed students using Inkling books improved their A.P. scores over the course of an entire year faster than those that didn't, according to MacInnis. \"Anecdotally, it shows that there’s some positive correlation,\" he said. \"But that's \u003cem>if\u003c/em> higher SAT outcomes is what you’re going after.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's the secret sauce? 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Both titles have received \u003ca href=\"http://openairpub.com/press\">rave reviews\u003c/a> for their luscious images, explanatory videos, and ease of use. \"The multimedia features elevate it from a how-to guide to something rivaling a small group class,\" \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2011/08/25/open-air-publishing/\">writes Mashable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inkling also produced the epic \u003ca href=\"https://www.inkling.com/store/professional-chef-cia-9th/\">\u003cem>The Professional Chef\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by the Culinary Institute of America. The book in its entirety costs $50, but you can also purchase individual chapters for $3 a piece. The new model makes book buying much like buying music -- choose only the pieces you like best. MacInnis fluidly demonstrates how to float from one chapter to the next, launch videos, close in on images, tap on sidebars and recipe instructions. 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But when you get to thinking about the hierarchy of knowledge you have to traverse in order to be an expert in a specific topic, you start to build the book very differently than you would have done in print,\" he said. \"We can take a textbook to an Inkling title in six weeks, but we can't create a pure Inkling experience in six weeks, because there’s no shortcut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17279\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/Screen-shot-2011-12-02-at-12.48.03-PM-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Inkling\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Inkling is in the midst of producing multiple projects that will take years to create because they're building native digital content. \"You'll see stuff that will be much more beautiful and much more interesting in structure,\" he said, though he would not elaborate further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TABLET OR E-READER?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything we’ve done is platform agnostic,\" MacInnis said. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_16476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tapiolankirjasto/4501562959/sizes/z/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-16476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/10/4501562959_07311317d0_z-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Print books will always have a place in our lives, but e-books can come in handy, too.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch5>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/jenny-shank/\">Jenny Shank\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>When Amazon first introduced the Kindle in 2007, I had no desire to own one. I was happy with regular papery books. When the iPad went on sale in 2010, it was harder for me to resist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been using Macs, and Macs only, since I was a 6-year-old trying to ford a river in the game \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_%28video_game%29\">Oregon Trail\u003c/a> on my school's Apple II. I bought an iPad within a few months of its release, and I find it as loveable and gee-whiz-cool as every other Apple product has been. Still, old habits die hard. When I hit the couch at the end of the day to read, it's usually with an old-fashioned book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-books have nothing on regular books for reading in the bathtub, in the rain while you're pushing your kid on the playground swing, and with your toddler in the rocking chair so he can learn to use his chubby fingers to turn the page, not to mention enjoy books with pop-ups, cut-outs, and other surprises. Regular books autographed by a favorite author make a perfect souvenir of an enjoyable\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">There are some books that I maybe don't need to own a printed copy of.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>night out at the bookstore. I write all over my books, make notes in the margins, and star and underline things. Ideas for my own writing come to me while I'm reading, and I scrawl these in the back blank pages of novels. Still, I have to admit that e-books are better than paper books in some situations. Here are five reasons I've switched to e-books, some of the time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. E-BOOKS ARE HELPFUL TO PARENTS. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Becoming a parent did not decrease my desire to read, but it did reduce the amount of time available for reading. I have to be creative about sneaking in reading, and the iPad has helped on several occasions. For example, on a recent vacation, my husband and two kids and I were staying together in one hotel room, and the only way to get the kids to go to bed at a reasonable hour was \u003c!--more-->to turn all the lights out at nine, leaving us all in the dark. I happily spent the time reading on the iPad, whose subtle glow didn't bother the kids. I've tried reading with regular books and book lights or flashlights in similar situations in the past, but the lights never illuminate the book well enough, and I'm always dropping, losing or breaking them. Plus, the sensation of whooshing the page away with a swipe of a finger across the iPad is great fun, and it's silent, a bonus when the kids are asleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My friend Jennifer Sullivan, who is a mother of twins, tells me that there's only one way for a book-loving mom to cope with endless bouts of nursing two kids at once -- reading on a Kindle. It has only one button to press, so it works better than turning pages when your arms are full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. IT'S EASIER TO SEARCH AN E-BOOK.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been a book reviewer for a number of newspapers and websites for more than a decade, and I always use lots of quotes from the book. Sometimes I can't find the quote I want, no matter how many times I flip through the review copy, looking for that pencil mark I made. But if I can remember even a word or two from the quote, I can find the passage instantly in an e-book or through Amazon's \"Search Inside This Book\" feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My husband has been trying to read my novel on his iPad, but he's making slow progress because he says it's too long and there are too many characters. (He's a minimalist; I'm a maximalist: There you have it.) Whenever he comes across a character name that he can't remember, he searches for the first time the character was introduced to refresh his memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. SOME APPS ARE IRRESISTIBLE\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually the only magic I want from a book is the kind I conjure in my own mind when I am transported by an incredible story. But some designers are coming up with fascinating reading apps. My favorite is the \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-new-yorker-magazine/id370614765?mt=8\">The New Yorker app\u003c/a> for the iPad, which comes free with a magazine subscription. On the iPad, I enjoy reading those front parts of The New Yorker that appear in please-don't-read-me small print in the magazine. I don't feel guilty when I skip parts, which for some reason I do with the magazine. (Is this a Catholic thing?) When you come to a cartoon in the app, you can go ahead and gorge on all the cartoons in a row first, which is what I like to do with the magazine anyway. Also, seeing The New Yorker issues that I haven't read yet arrayed on the iPad does not induce the flurry of panic, shame, and existential dread that seeing the decaying pile of printed New Yorkers in the corner of my living room does. I try not to visit that corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. IT'S EASIER TO FIND FOREIGN-LANGUAGE BOOKS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My husband has been raising our kids to speak French, his mother language, and one of the challenges of this is finding plenty of books and DVDs for them to enjoy. We have a sizable collection, but still, the kids get bored. Often my daughter would rather read the new books in English that we checked out from the library than the same old books in French. There are lots of Spanish language materials available here in Colorado, but for any other language, it's tricky. The library only has a few dozen books in French that we've checked out so often the kids have them memorized. Ordering books from France is expensive, and carting them home after we visit family there is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, my husband discovered a trove of children's story e-books in French from GoodBye Paper Éditions. They are fun, interactive stories that include games, so my daughter doesn't drag her feet anymore when it's French story time. (Our favorite: \"Marcel, le cochon qui avait peur de se salir\" -- that's, \"Marcel, the Pig Afraid of Getting Himself Dirty.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. 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I need to buy a new bookshelf, which I've learned over the years only inevitably leads me to buying another bookshelf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When former Apple CEO Steve Jobs died, my husband showed me a photo of Jobs in his 20s, sitting in a room furnished only with a lamp, a stereo, and a cup of tea. \"This is how we should live,\" my husband said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my case, it would have to be the lamp, the tea, the stereo, and a couple thousand books. I love books. I will never stop bringing them into the house, but yeah, there are some books that I maybe don't need to own a printed copy of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jenny Shank is the author of the novel \"The Ringer\" (The Permanent Press, 2011). The Ringer was a finalist for the \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/mRhXT4\">Reading the West Book Awards\u003c/a>, sponsored by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association, and is a Tattered Cover Book Store \u003ca href=\"http://www.tatteredcover.com/summer-reading-list-2011\">Summer Reading 2011\u003c/a> selection. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/10/5-reasons-e-books-are-awesome-even-for-the-most-reluctant/pbs-mediashift-logo-final-8/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16478\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/10/pbs-mediashift-logo-final2-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was originally published by\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/05/childrens-magazines-cater-to-true-early-adopters-with-mobile-apps137.html\"> PBS MediaShift\u003c/a>, covering the intersection of \u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>media and technology. 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How will the move to electronic versions of comics and graphic novels change the way in which they are accessed, read, and -- most importantly, arguably with this genre -- shared?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sharing piece has always been an important part of the comic book subculture, where often you hear about new series and new artists and new storytellers because a friend shares it with you. But as e-books typically come with rights restrictions, it isn't possible to lend someone your beloved digital copy of, say, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(Vertigo)\">Neil Gaiman's The Sandman\u003c/a>. Some comic book publishers are recognizing the importance of sharing as an integral part of the comic culture and as such are making some -- the first issue, for example available without digital rights management (DRM), specifically so others can share them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the DRM issue may prove a stumbling block for the comic book culture, there's a lot of promise with the move to digital literature. There's some indication already that \u003ca href=\"http://www.hackeducation.com/2010/09/29/kids-say-theyll-read-more-on-e-books/\">kids are more interested\u003c/a> in reading on e-readers and iPads than reading print copies (57% of kids age nine to 17 say they’re interested in reading via e-books, and a third say they’d read more for fun if they had more access to books on an electronic device). And the rise of digital comics and a new self-publishing industry (via sites like \u003ca href=\"http://kickstarter.com\">Kickstarter\u003c/a>) mean that more indie artists may be able to provide more content -- particularly content aimed at kids. (See the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wormworldsaga.com/\">Wormworld Saga\u003c/a> as an example.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, sites like \u003ca href=\"http://graphic.ly\">Graphic.ly\u003c/a> are putting comics and graphic novels on the Web, so that they're not only tied to devices like e-readers or iPads. Graphic.ly also has a thriving online community surrounding its comics, and as we recently noted here on Mindshift, these sorts of social networks might \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/how-social-networks-might-change-the-way-we-read-books/\">change the way in which we read\u003c/a>. 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