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http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6343

E-Enabled Textbooks: Lower Cost, Higher Functionality
Randol Larson, Maricopa

As digital rights management matures as an industry, delivering secure electronic content is becoming more than a virtual reality for intellectual property owners. Publishers, who for years were reluctant to venture into online content distribution for fear of losing control of their assets, are beginning to partner with content delivery vendors to sell course materials online. Such companies secure content by using encryption keys or some other means of control. They then package the text content with a variety of value-added features, such as hypertext functions that appeal to students used to finding information on the World Wide Web....



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