CourseSmart, Metrodigi Collaborate on Digital Textbooks

Digital academic platform CourseSmart and ebook publisher Metrodigi announced their new partnership project at BookExpo America this week. Together, the two companies plan to offer academic publishers an even more efficient, streamlined process for creating interactive digital textbooks. This content will be available in the ePub3 standard for greater adoption and compatibility, while still allowing publishers to work in the digital interactive direction in a more affordable way. "Interactive, visual and engaging digital content is the future of learning materials and we are excited to form a partnership that will dramatically drive down the cost tocreate this content," said CourseSmart CEO Sean Devine, in a statement. "We anticipate a growing catalog of the interactive content available in our new InteractiveReader and are eager to support the positive impacts on student engagement and learning." The cost of developing this kind of digital content has often prevented publishers from pursuing interactive materials, but Metrodigi’s Chaucer platform brings that cost down to a more manageable level, especially for publishers with a smaller catalog of titles or who develop materials for a limited segment of students. "We are continually expanding our network of publishers and are excited Chaucer is enabling our partners to create more compelling and interactive content," continued Steven McKinney, Metrodigi CEO. "By combining our experience creating digital materials in other areas, including comics, art books, children's books and cookbooks, with CourseSmart's expertise in higher education, we have the ability to create incredibly compelling, cross-platform content for the education sector." This collaboration will add to CourseSmart’s existing catalog of more than 40,000 academic titles from sixty different educational publishers. The CourseSmart catalog includes around ninety percent of the educational textbook titles available today. CourseSmart, Metrodigi Collaborate on Digital Textbooks is a post from: E-Reader News

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