RE: Political Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Digital Textbook Selection Processes

Web Philosophy Community Group,

Greetings. Thank you. I would like to address a possible miscommunication. Delfi Ramirez' comment: "Last year I was impressed by the following idea, a young enterpreneur from Sweden gave to me: People should be able to find what you they are looking for based on their personal interests. There is no need to create a pre-established model or catalogue." In response to my comment: "While some have considered web-based app store models for the sale of textbooks to schoolboards, others consider models with schoolboard-local databases and client-side software, models where each schoolboard can have each candidate digital textbook in their database and where each schoolboard member can make use of computer technology during group processes. We can see that a niche exists for such tools and equipment, collaborative software, and that argumentation technologies can enhance such software." could be a miscommunication and I wanted to take a moment to make sure that there was not a miscommunication.

There is a niche for schoolboard software as described and there is a need to create software for schoolboards. Each individual is free to create digital textbooks, textbooks which no longer require a printing press, each individual is free to do business with publishers or not to, as convenient to them, and each author can fill out paperwork for their digital textbooks to be considered by schoolboards. Each scientist, group of scientists, each science department at each university, and each science laboratory has the option to create digital science textbooks, for example. The schoolboards require new tools with which to explore am arbitrarily large set of digital textbooks competing in a free marketplace.



Kind regards,

Adam Sobieski