The 1997 edition of my textbook, New Perspectives on Computer concepts, included a fully digital version. Students could read the entire text on their computer screens, take interactive quizzes, work with simulations of application software, and do lots of other cool stuff.
Now, fifteen years later, the rest of the publishing world has jumped on the digital book bandwagon. Authors working with most publishers can now go digital, but there is price; filling out cumbersome grids so that a production team in India can put together all your digital assets.
I've been working with BookOnPublish software that allows me to easily DIM (do it myself), just by mousing over my manuscript to create hotlinks to videos and Flash animations and dropping in quiz questions. It gives me complete control and I can see what works pedagogically right away. Check out this cool tool at www.bookonpublish.com.
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