Macmillan's New Digital Textbooks Let Profs Reorder, Rewrite, and Stick It to Rival Academics

Macmillan's newly announced DynamicBooks textbooks are a huge change for the stodgy, ultra-conservative world of academic writing. The digital textbooks give professors the power to reorder chapters, insert extra reading, delete irrelevant passages, rewrite individual sentences, and scribble in the margins. Oh, and they'll cost half the price of physical textbooks.

The inherent question here is whether professors should actually have the right to alter textbooks as they see fit--but the fact...