Andre Yoskowitz
23 Feb 2010 17:56
Publishing giant Macmillan has announced today the launch of it's own DynamicBooks software platform, allowing professors to edit digital textbooks without approval of the original author.
The instructors can add or delete text, re-arrange chapters, and add their own media and charts, using a simple online authoring tool.
The digital textbooks will go up for sale via dynamicbooks.com and through college book stores, and will be quite significantly cheaper then their print counterparts. For example, the New York Times shows the book "Psychology," which has MSRP of $135, but retails for about $120 at most big book stores. The DynamicBooks version will retail for $48.76 and can be viewed on computers and the iPhone.
Android and iPad support is expected soon.