Ebook toolkit: Mackin VIA.(Test Drive)

Having just reviewed Follett's suite of ebook-related products last month, it's been interesting to compare how Mackin is serving up digital content they offer the pre-K-12 market, including the more than 37,000 unlimited, simultaneous access ebooks in its rapidly growing catalog. It's especially interesting since lots of that content is available from both vendors. And, Mackin--like Follett--is scrambling to evolve quickly and cater to increasingly econtent-savvy customers in order to grab as much of the emerging school library ebook market as possible. It's a market that--fuse finally lit--could blow up big-time any moment now, at which point the vendor with the most established …