Professors Can Rewrite Digitally

Readers can modify content on the Web, so why not in books?

»In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes.
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While many publishers have offered customized print textbooks for years — allowing instructors to reorder chapters or insert third-party content from other publications or their own writing — DynamicBooks gives instructors the power to alter individual sentences and paragraphs without consulting the original authors or publisher.
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Instructors who have tested the DynamicBooks software say they like the idea of being able to fine-tune a textbook. ›There’s almost always some piece here or some piece there that a faculty person would have rather done differently,‹ said Todd Ruskell, senior lecturer in physics at the Colorado School of Mines, who tested an electronic edition of ›Physics for Scientists and Engineers‹ by Paul A. Tipler and Gene Mosca.
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more: NYTimes.com

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