Title: the future now
1the future now new formats, new purposes
burrows, coburn, loi, wilkins _at_ rmit university
2eBook Readers directions in enabling technology
3Foundational reading and learning experiences are
changing
4The transition to digital media has begun
5Case Studies
McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing
eBooks.com - an Australian connection
ProQuest Information and Learning - the Digital
Library of Dissertations and Theses
The Brisbane City Library ebook project
6Australian and Overseas Experiences -
technologies creeping into the classroom
Laptops in class, The Balwyn High School
experience
The ebook in class, the experiences of students
at Fordham College in Manhattan, USA
7Australian and Overseas Experiences -
technologies creeping into the classroom
eBooks for Postgraduate Psychology Students,
University of South Australia
The University of Southern Queenslands web pad
project
John Paul College wireless laptop programme
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9access and transitional models which map to user
practices
what are the conditions necessary for a
displacement of books and textbooks ?
promotion
content
wireless networks
hardware and software
universal standards for digital text
authors
teachers and students
digital rights management and format conversion
services
10 I read it on the radio
radio with pictures?
printing sounds?
radio books?
publishing?
11not so much a competition for supremacy as a sea
change in choices