{"id":294,"date":"2005-08-15T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2005-08-15T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T13:18:15","slug":"electronic_textbook_program_ge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/15\/electronic_textbook_program_ge\/","title":{"rendered":"electronic textbook program gets real (slightly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the pilot e-textbook program (see <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/cynical_etextbo.html\">post<\/a>) on trial this fall at Princeton, the University of Utah and nearly a dozen other universities, is modifying inititial plans to make digital textbooks expire after five months, extending terms to at least a year, and, in some cases, scrapping the limit altogether. Congratulations to publishers for bravely pushing their program to the bare minimum.<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Publishers+loosen+rules+on+e-textbooks\/2100-1025_3-5830640.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5830640&#038;subj=news\">&#8220;Publishers loosen rules on e-textbooks&#8221;<\/a> in CNET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the pilot e-textbook program (see post) on trial this fall at Princeton, the University of Utah and nearly a dozen other universities, is modifying inititial plans to make digital textbooks expire after five months, extending terms to at least a year, and, in some cases, scrapping the limit altogether. Congratulations to publishers for bravely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,561],"tags":[2355],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright-and-copyleft","category-education","tag-ebook-e-book-textbook-education-publishing-education-classroom-book-books-pdf-drm-copyright-copyleft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}