When Will Electronic Textbooks Take Over?

By Dennis D. McDonald In my recent post Negroponte: Next OLPC Machine Will Be a Book I questioned where the content was going to come from to feed the use of this new dual-screen device as an electronic textbook. I sent a link to a friend of mine who is in the publishing business and this is one of the comments he sent back via email: Very interesting - we’re working hard to make a lot of primary material-based educational content available but our experience of the textbook side is that publis