Re: eBook devices available
- From: Tom Frenkel <taf2@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: eBook devices available
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:04:04 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
I read somewhere a few months ago, that at least one dental school is
already putting all their course materials onto a CD-ROM ... apparently
obviating the need to buy any textbooks during one's dental education.
--Tom
Tom Frenkel <taf2@[redacted]>
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2
[Moderator: You and Charles may be thinking of the partnership between
Vital Source and a few dental schools, such as NYU's. See
http://www.nyu.edu/dental/vitalbook/ for details of the NYU partnership,
including links to FAQs and the Vital Source's home page.
We also discussed some of these commercial digitized-textbooks projects
on this list last August and September. Some concerns were raised
at that time about nontransferability and limited lifespan of the
textbooks. See the archive for more details. - JMO]
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Charles Hall wrote:
> ...
> BTW, in a totally different world, a high-tech start up here in Raleigh is
> shooting for the medical school textbook market. They were called "Vital
> Signs" but I can't locate a URL for them so they may changed names. At any
> rate the idea was to cut a deal with both the publishers and the medical
> school professors to bundle all the curriculum material some sort of super
> interactive DVD disk-like format. Students would then be required to
> purchase this disk, which would expire after graduation. Professors would
> contribute their own material to replace the course notes students would
> ordinarily have to buy, as well as the medical books of course.
> ...