Jeff Cohen, CEO of CampusBook.com and author of The
Textbook Guru blog, decided if he was going to review e-book platforms, he
might as well actually buy an e-book and give it a spin. Then, he wrote a
series of blogs about the college textbook platforms he tried, with a final post that links to each review.
Cohen went online, bought a textbook, and downloaded
it, just as a student would. He also made sure to check out features from each
provider in an effort to give readers a true snapshot of how well those
features worked for him. He found that each platform he tried had both good and
bad features, but that the entire higher education e-book industry has work to
do because current models still suffer from “small-scale book-mimicry.”
