Advantages of e-textbooks

[Judy Baker]

What are the advantages of adopting an electronic textbook?

Electronic textbooks allow for -

* electronic bookmarking and highlighting
* keyword searches
* electronic mail
* links to Web resources related to the topic
* ways for teachers to customize the information for their students
* hyperlinked definitions and word pronunciation
* language translation

What are some other advantages?

[Paul Topping]

Copy into documents for quoting, calculating, etc. My company, Design Science, is working on allowing mathematical equations in webpages, ebooks, etc. to be copied into calculation programs such as Mathematica, Maple, Excel, etc.