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The future of textbooks. Part 2: E-textbooks

The current notion of a textbook as a sequentially presented, body of knowledge has been around for more than 100 years.  It will continue for some time yet but I take it for granted that the benefits of having an … Continue reading

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The Future of Textbooks. Part 1: Are textbooks obsolete?

I’ve recently read an interesting article on the future of the book, written from a publisher’s perspective and watched an excellent video of Margaret Attwood talking about the future of publishing from an author’s perspective. This stimulated me to think … Continue reading

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Publishing on the web

I’m starting to plan a new publication – a Handbook of Socio-technical Systems Engineering, which will be a series of short chapters plus extensive appendices which comment on and link to work that has been done in this area. Like … Continue reading

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