{"id":19346,"date":"2011-05-24T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T22:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=19346"},"modified":"2011-05-24T18:36:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T22:36:03","slug":"would-you-like-a-49-electronic-college-textbook-with-lifetime-updates-merrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/05\/24\/would-you-like-a-49-electronic-college-textbook-with-lifetime-updates-merrill\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you like a $49 electronic college textbook with lifetime updates? [Merrill]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2011\/05\/24\/would-you-like-a-49-electronic-college-textbook-with-lifetime-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Would you like a $49 electronic college textbook with lifetime updates? <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from crunchgear.com by Scott Merrill<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I was just talking about this idea earlier today at lunch. <strong>Why can&#8217;t a textbook be like\/look like\/act like\/and be distributed more along the lines <span style=\"color: #008000;\">of an app from an online app store<\/span> than a static, physical textbook? <\/strong>Why can&#8217;t someone purchase a lifetime stream of updates? Or at least an annual agreement for such a stream of updates for the next 12 months? Alternatively, perhaps after purchasing the original book, a person could opt in for an upgrade at some point (much life software)?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/educationstormfront.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/24\/a-digital-textbook-that-is-better-than-the-physical-book\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A digital textbook that is better than the physical book<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Education Stormfront<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like a $49 electronic college textbook with lifetime updates? &#8212; from crunchgear.com by Scott Merrill From DSC: I was just talking about this idea earlier today at lunch. Why can&#8217;t a textbook be like\/look like\/act like\/and be distributed more along the lines of an app from an online app store than a static, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,86,209,286,275,143,304,239,140],"tags":[627,614,710,704,762,719,240,640,748,643],"class_list":["post-19346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-digital-learning","category-digital-textbooks","category-disruption","category-e-readers","category-new-business-models","category-publishing","tag-21st-century","tag-change","tag-digital-learning","tag-digital-textbooks","tag-e-books","tag-e-readers","tag-new-publishing-models","tag-publishing","tag-tablets","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19346"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19355,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19346\/revisions\/19355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}