Book Business | By Bill Kasdorf, VP & Principal Consultant, Apex CoVantage
Despite the popular [mis]conception that digital textbooks haven’t taken off, the educational ecosystem-particularly in higher ed-is where some of the most active digital developments are happening. Most college textbooks have associated online resources and are often available as ebooks or online. The textbooks themselves are almost all available in digital form through aggregators like CourseSmart and VitalSource (both of which have updated their platforms to be based on EPUB 3). The major textbook publishers all have sophisticated digital workflows. With the advent of tablets, even K-12 content is increasingly digital.