Digital Textbooks: Reading the Landscape

The migration of books to electronic screens has been accelerating with the introduction of mobile reading on Kindles, i Phones and Sony Readers and the growing power of Google's Book Search engine. The advent of digital textbooks is already upon us. The workshop will survey the current landscape; examine the potential benefits, and confront existing barriers surrounding the technology of digital textbooks. We will examine how other institutions of Higher Education have incorporated this technology into their existing framework and what steps your University or School might take to benefit from the advances being made in the digitization of textbooks.