According to this story, Nature Publishing, a division of Macmillan Publisher will debut its digital textbook “Principle of Biology” in January. The digital textbook is packed with interactive features from dynamic illustrations to interwoven audio and video clips into the text.
Nature Publishing “chose to make the browser central to the textbook, rather than creating individual apps for students to use on electronic devices- an expensive procedure that might require as many as 20 versions, the website senses which device a student is using say a laptop or a tablet, and delivers the appropriate format to the browser.”
The textbook was piloted at some campuses of California State University this past year.
