zentrix718

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Hi Peaches,

Great website! It looks absolutely fantastic, and I wish it had been around when I was in college!

• What is your take on non-paper text books?
• Can you see Texts.com expanding away from just paper into other teaching aids?
• How do you see the future of open-source text books?

My dad started an online geometry text book about five years ago, and it has been slowly gaining popularity in an actual classroom setting due to its interactivity and the fact that it can be updated on the spot when errors are discovered or sections don't make sense.

I was wondering what your position on non-traditional text books were. With the growing popularity of putting tablets and chromebooks in schools, are they going to be around all that longer?

I noticed you mention that the long term goal was to help facilitate open-source text books, and I really hope these take off. I was wondering what kind of changes need to be made in order to let something like these thrive more readily in today's world.

Thanks for the response!

Wow, that lawsuit definitely is going to be a big deal in the near future! Hopefully this will open up more options for other open source folks to dive into bigger and cooler content!

It's really cool that you guys have E-Books on there, now if only the E-Book companies can create better ways to use their books! If you're interested, Math Open Ref is the geometry text book I was referring to.

I think interactivity is going to be key in the future, since now we have all of this mobile technology and its getting cheaper. With so many new ways to describe how something works, it would be silly to keep plugging away with the tools we've been using for hundreds of years.

I can see how what you guys are doing might put you out of business, but it seems like you guys are on the track of doing something big! Keep at it!