New E-Textbooks Will Tattle To Professors About Students' Reading Habits

CourseSmart plans to track how students read. It'll even determine their "engagement" in reading. Boy we're glad we aren't in school any more. Digital textbooks seem like they should be a boon to students. They all fit on a single, thin device. They're (hopefully) cheaper. But dead-tree books beat them out on at least one thing: they won't tattle on you for not doing the assigned reading. CourseSmart, a big e-textbook publisher, just unveiled a tool called CourseSmart Analytics that can track st...