Digital technology makes it possible to improve the clarity, precision and utility of textbooks. A process known as “knowledge engineering” powers those improvements. We should embrace it now.

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It breaks my heart when the costs of college-level textbooks are labeled as “junk fees.” Or, when people complain that today’s textbooks are “overstuffed, chopped-up monstrosities” that are boring and ...