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Stephen Downes

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Nice summation from relentless resource gathering of important trends in e-textbooks and content. For one thing, textbooks are breaking apart. "The movement toward disaggregated content has been seriously afoot ever since iTunes appeared and we started talking about songs instead of albums." Additionally, we are moving gradually from plain content to applications. "Apps are big and going to become even more important. What we think of as a textbook today could very well become an app that serves as a simple framework for receiving mashed up or subscribed content."

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