1. eBooks and eTextbooks

2. Forrester Research: eBook Sales Hit $1 Billion “2010 will end with $966 million in eBooks sold to consumers. By 2015, the industry will have nearly tripled to almost $3 billion, a point at which the industry will be forever altered.” http://blogs.forrester.com/james_mcquivey/10-11-08-ebooks_ready_to_climb_past_1_billion

3. 7% of adults read ebooks. 41% of their books are digital. eReader owners read 66% of their books digitally. Less than 10% of Adults Read eBooks http://blogs.forrester.com/james_mcquivey/10-11-08-ebooks_ready_to_climb_past_1_billion

4. How People Read eBooks

5. eTextbooks Flat World Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Coursesmart http://www.coursesmart.org/ Free Digital Textbook Initiative http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ CourseLoad any textbook can be made into digital format http://www.courseload.com/Home.aspx

6. Custom eTextbooks Dynamic Books (Macmillan) http://dynamicbooks.vitalbook.com/ Create (McGraw-Hill) http://create.mcgraw-hill.com WileyPlus (John Wiley & Sons) http://www.wileyplus.com/ Pearson Custom http://www.pearsoncustom.com/

7. Library Resources NetLibrary – must read online Overdrive – checkout downloadable books. Other ebooks (online books) http://library.wichita.edu/colldev/ebooks.htm

8. Discussion What is the purpose of a textbook? As ebooks become more interactive, what will this do to the role of the instructor? What about the bookstore? http://chronicle.com/article/As-Textbooks-Go-Digital/125363/