February 6, 2012

Textbooks Going Digital

In this day and age everything is going digital. It reminds me of a song from my childhood that was aptly named, “Going Digital”.

The latest item to begin its transition into the digital platform is the textbook. That might seem like a blessing on the back. Some would think that chiropractors had stock in the textbook publishing companies. Now, there are e-books and on paper that sounds like an amazing advancement!

But alas, this movement has had a rocky start. First of all, not all companies have gotten on board with this new trend. They are choosing to make only a select few of their textbooks available online, and then they can’t seem to find a platform reliable enough to support it. My question is, how can regular books be seamlessly made into e-book files but textbooks are so difficult?

Even Apple iBooks is having issues with compatibility for textbooks. If we’re truly going digital then I would suggest perfecting the capability before mass marketing it for $15 a download.