Our aim is to significantly lower the cost of textbooks through the provision of quality, low-cost technology, enabling the creation, secure distribution and reading of electronic textbooks. Our solutions are built around the premise that an electronic textbook is not purely an electronic version of its printed counterpart. After all, is the turning of a physical page actually relevant in an electronic medium?

For students

What is important to a student in the use of a textbook is the ease with which he can navigate between sections of the book, adding appropriate bookmarks, following author recommended routes through the book, or simply using it as a reference guide. He should be able to quickly and easily take notes against the sections of the book, and navigate and search those notes in the same way as he does the published book's content. For software and book downloads please visit the online shop at eTextbookShop.com

For authors

Textbook authors looking to publish electronically are rightly concerned about 'digital rights management' - ensuring that their copyrighted text is not freely distributed. They obviously want their texts to be widely used, but also want to ensure that they are being fairly recompensed. For more information please visit the authors' section of eTextbookShop.com

For lecturers

How frustrating it must be to find students struggling to afford enough books on a module's book list. How can you educate efficiently when students are sharing books, or not reading them at all?