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Discussion : "How Important Are Open eBook Standards to Universities?"

From INFOdocket, news of this recent commentary on the JISC study :

New from UK’s JISC.

For universities and colleges looking to bring their teaching resources online, many are using the new ePub3 standard, which is what underpins Apple’s new iBooks and is become the defacto standard for ebooks. Linking to a JISC report to help universities understand the benefits of ePub3, JISC programme manager Ben Showers speaks to Nicola Yeeles via Skype to explain what universities and colleges can do to help their people use the standard.

Ben Showers discusses the podcast in this blog post.

Direct to Podcast (6:31)

Posted by on February 16, 2012 at 01:42 PM in books, digital, research libraries |

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