Guest blog: Is Macmillan's new textbook software progressive – or dangerous?

Dynamic Books software from Macmillan will allow professors to reorganize, update, revise, and even delete sections from online textbooks.

By Rebekah Denn / February 23, 2010

It seems like a good thing for professors to argue points in a textbook, to debate or disagree with what’s printed. But is it OK for them to rewrite the book instead?

That’s what could happen with new software from major publisher Macmillan, The New York Times reported earlier this week.

Here’s how the Times described the “DynamicBooksâ€