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I don't know what Zinio is going to do about this problem, but I know they are working with the publishers to consider various solutions. First, you are right that some students really don't like the restriction of being able to access the textbook on only one computer. There are some important issues still to be worked out. the whole selling point is that they are exact replicas of the printed versions. Neither the publishers nor Zinio would have any incentive to change the texts. The Zinio textbooks are half the price of the regular printed versions, and they never expire.ĭigital textbooks are exact replicas of the printed texts. Plus, you can search the text for words and phrases, a feature students found extremely useful. Multimedia features are embedded in the pages, navigation is extremely easy, and you can digitally annotate, take notes, and highlight. Hacker, have you checked out their new version? It is nothing at all like a giant pdf. Since the project was completed in the spring, Zinio has dramatically improved their reader. However, a majority really liked the digital textbooks offered by Zinio. There were some students who didn't like the idea of reading on the screen. Last year, as part of my "senior project" at Stanford, I worked with Zinio to gather feedback about digital textbooks from students.

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sigh, typical of them to screw something like that up), but no dedicated reader that I know of has this, and certainly not in a way that supports free formats. Microsoft Word 2003 has this feature (but horribly distorts font sizes when used.

To this day, I still have not seen a proper electronic book reader that allows pages to be viewed side-by-side. one huge long scrolling page of electronic PDF.

You can read it in a side-by-side fashion, vs.

You can lend your bound book to a friend, or borrow one from a friend.

Your ability to read the book doesn't stop when the batteries run out.

You can refer to the printed book while away from anything electronic, such as on a train, camping, whatever.

You can write in them, annotate pages, highlight passages.

There are lots of advantaged to printed books, over electronic books (and yes, electronic books are superior in some ways, but not all) I hope this "test" fails, and fails miserably. but you don't get a bound, annotated, ISBN copy of that work. Not only do you have to spend money on paper, ink, time, etc.

Printing a copy, even a 1-time copy, now exceeds the original purchase price of the book.

With digital media, this becomes even more possible. There was a report released in the last 6 months that basically described how one teacher's curriculum was subtly rewritten by changing a few paragraphs in his textbook over the years, changing history essentially.

You can't trust that the material in the electronic version is the same exact material as the printed version (without visually comparing them of course).

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What happens if you go home for break, and want to read your textbooks on your home computer? What if you use a PC at school and a Mac at home? Bzzt.

You can't transfer it from one computer to another (and as anyone who uses a computer at college knows, computers get stolen/wiped a LOT).

Will this electronic version work in 20 years? Not likely. I still have textbooks from school here, from 20 years ago, and they still work fine. Even at a 50% discount, its not worth it to throw that money away.

You can't sell your 'textbook' at the end of the year to regain some of the money you spent on it.

Related: The doomed to fail e-book experiment at Princeton and some other schools which was announced last week.

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Some download Zinio books will offer flash, video and audio rich media content.įor more check out their Web site and also this Flash presentation. You will be able to print your e-book pages as often as you want, unless the publisher chooses to restrict printing rights. A downloaded e-book cannot be transferred to another computer.

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The second option, e-book downloads, requires Zinio Reader to be installed on your Windows or Mac machine. While online viewing allows access from any computer, you'll be given a limited set number of page-views of the book and only one free option to print it out in full. The digital editions are available at about 50 percent off list price and can be viewed online on any computer with an Internet connection or downloaded to an individual's computer (not both). This probably won't impress e-book fans, but McGraw-Hill Higher Education and Zinio are teaming up to bring 150 or so digital textbooks to computer-savvy students.