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You can’t help but feel apocalyptic when a tech giant targets the industry in which your company operates. Sometimes, the sky truly does fall on the smaller, creative players toiling away in emerging or transforming markets. This is especially the case when the tech giant in question is Apple. So I couldn’t help but be ……

We are delighted to announce Symtext’s new HTML5 reader.
One of the great challenges faced by publishers, schools, and educators is universality: the need to deliver learning materials across all platforms so that, whatever the device of choice, each student may access his or her materials. In the rapidly growing custom content category, which often features ……

December 31st is looking increasingly like a watershed date for post-secondary learning materials delivery, due to the expiration of the current Access Copyright agreement and an intractable debate over the structure of a new agreement. While it’s possible that some form of interim agreement will emerge before the 31st, the proverbial horse is out ……

Interesting post this morning in The Chronicle of Higher Education.  An opinion piece from David Lewis (dean of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library and assistant vice president for digital scholarly communications at Indiana University) makes the by now well-known case that we need to lower textbook costs. The Chronicle’s tweet goes a tad ……

Inside Higher Ed’s Technology and Learning blogger Josh Kim has written about Symtext. We couldn’t be more pleased.  Josh has also asked his readers for ideas to help us so let me make it clear that we’re all ears over here!
Let me also take a few minutes to respond to a couple of the questions ……

There’s nothing like a little sun, both physical and metaphorical, to make your day.
So after a brilliant long weekend, it’s nice to step out of the proverbial shadows with today’s coverage in the Toronto Star. Here’s an extract or three from Naomi Carniol’s piece:
Unlike a traditional eBook, which digitizes an entire paper book, the ……

On Saturday May 15th I went back to school and attended BookCampTO held at the iSchool at UofT. As I walked through the familiar doors I wondered what new information my old classrooms would hold. The outline for the day looked promising: it began with coffee and ended with drinks. With bookends like those ……

Today is a big day for us. We have opened our doors to educators — both academic and corporate — to get free accounts on Symtext. We think it’s time to share what we do with a larger audience, letting people know that Symtext makes it easy for educators to teach the ideal course by ……

BookNet Canada held its annual Tech Forum in Toronto this past Thursday. The all day event, entitled “Calculated Risk: Adventures in Book Publishing”, drew together some really bright folks from publishing and technology circles. As a distributor of digital educational content, it was both gratifying and confirming to see such a tremendous response from thought leaders ……

In September, UBC’s Amanda Goldrick-Jones introduced Liquid Textbooks to COMM486, via OUP Canada. With the course now well underway, we thought this a good time to ask Amanda about her experiences to date.
(Note – COMM486 is divided into 23 sections, taught by seven instructors. Symtext created 23 versions of the COMM486 Liquid Textbook, one ……