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= Innovations =

The innovations I concentrated on were open sources, ** Microsoft SharePoint ** Content Management System and e-Books. I chose to focus on e-Book innovation as opposed to the other two other two, because the eBook idea is not new. The diffusion of the eBook innovation started as a Gutenberg Project in 1971 by Michael Hart at the University of Illinois (Guardian.co.uk, 2002), whose goal was to establish an electronic library. However, as technology develops, so does the innovation and the implementation of the basic idea. From only being a source on the Internet as a collection of eBooks, it has evolved to hand held devices. In 1998, NuroMedia released the first handheld eBook reader, the Rocket, which allowed eBooks to be downloaded from a PC (Guardian.co.uk, 2002) and other companies followed suit. However, in **2001,** Time Warner closed iPublish, saying: "The market for eBooks has simply not developed the way we hoped" (Guardian.co.uk, 2002).

Several years later, through the usage of “communication channel” (Rogers, 2003, p.100) by Amazon.com, in 2009, Amazon.com is expected to sell about 550,000 Kindle devices in 2009 according to a research done by a financial group Collins Stewart. Forty additional reader mobile devices from different companies which are on the market are also selling well ( Kolakowski, 2009). Amazon recruited seven colleges to participate in a diffusion study  on the use of eBooks on campuses where educators and students use eBook in education; so far, the devise is met with positive reactions (Young, 2009). Amazon is using educators and students to germinate the product on the market by using education diffusion research type. According to Rogers (2003), teachers and administration are the ones that influence the educational adoption decisions (p.61) which can further spill outside of academia.

The potential use of eBooks in education is growing as it gives the students an option for free or inexpensive books. EBooks give instructors and students the option to carry with them a library in their pocket with articles, books, writing and reference material which are instantly available. The instructor can add comments to writings or chapters in a book and have the student save the comments. The electronic book is still in the developmental process and hopefully, a common format can be developed for all eBook devices. As eBook devices continue to improve their ability, more students and instructors will adopt the product. Reference

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