Although there is an organization with this name “Nextbook,” presumably that won’t make it inappropriate to attempt to coin a phrase and lay claim to the term “nextbooks” for the sort of electronic, open access, open source, online, digital, interactive, multimedia “textbooks” that we have been talking about. Especially since Mark Goodacre suggested that what we have in mind is something less “texty,” replacing the “text” part with something else seems appropriate. And since we’re envisaging lots of different, partially overlapping educational materials using an array of new media, having them simply be “what’s next” rather than “electronic textbooks” or something else more cumbersome seems preferrable.
What do others think? Do I get to go down in history as the person who coined the phrase “nextbooks”?
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