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CEO2 Climate Game|Can you reduce your company's CO2 emissions?|Allianz Knowledge. First All-Digital Science Textbook Will Be Free | Wired Science. Science textbooks are born as clunky, out-of-date tomes the moment they roll off the printing press. Research simply moves too fast for the publishing industry to keep up. Digital texts could end this cycle. Textbooks designed to be all-digital and interactive from the start (as opposed to simply converting print books) could bring not only salvation to schools because they’re easily updated, but also a revolution in how students learn science.

Yet publishers are comfortable with a $5 billion-per-year college textbook industry that has recently seen price increases outpace inflation by more than 250 percent, and 99 percent of the market is tied to paper. One not-for-profit organization is done waiting for the digital textbook revolution. ‘We’re trying to exploit the human brain, like videogames do.’ Within two and a half years, the E. We have video of the first chapter, “Cell Division,” with interactive animations that will be integral to the text (see above).

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