Digitizing textbooks is becoming an increasingly important practice in formal education. While higher education has been the main focus of research on e-textbooks so far, the topic is also gaining attention in K-12 education. In recent years, academic and educational publishers have started to follow the phenomenon of extensive digitization by converting printed textbooks into digital formats that can be read on a computer screen, a special e-book reader, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or even a mobile phone. Unfortunately, the first generation of electronic textbooks cannot be considered successful as, although digital, they are but downloadable versions of traditional textbooks or digitally generated static e-book files (epub, pdf), usually monolithic and not at all interactive. Further, most of today's students do not read textbooks regularly (most fit into the description of the YouTube Generation) and they prefer short pieces of content, preferably in different media (videos, texts, pictures) and actively follow peer recommendations, on top their teachers' suggestions.
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