Method and system for eletronic publishing content management

Abstract

The experience of an end user of a work is enhanced by incrementally distributing the work and supplementing the work by adding an additional interactive component. Installments of works are delivered to the end user on a scheduled basis (and may optionally be delivered upon demand by the end user), or as a benefit delivered in exchange for end user interaction fulfilling certain criteria. The end user is requested or required to perform a task associated with the installment before a subsequent installment is delivered. The user's response (or lack thereof) to the task is recorded, and the user is optionally enabled to later review his or her responses. Each task may have correct or incorrect answers, or the task may require an ad hoc response(s). Optionally, an administrator may review the responses of the tasks of various users assigned to a particular administrator.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to the field of publishing. More specifically, the present invention relates to electronic publication content management. Background technique [0002] Electronic publishing (ePublishing) has actually been popularized since the appearance of computers. While electronic publishing brings many benefits to authors of works (by virtue of low-cost distribution, low entry costs into the field, ease of portability, etc.), or adds new functionality to works (by virtue of animations, links, assignments, etc.), However, electronic publishing fails to change the fundamental nature of the work itself at this point. The ostensible goal of electronic publishing has always been to make it easier for publishers to disseminate works. While these advances provide benefits to the publishers of the work and at the same time enhance certain enhancements to the reader of the work, in fact many of these advances often make it more ...

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[0005] In these cases, however, the essential nature of the work itself does not change

From any point of view, users must make an active attempt at their own pace to locate, read, and extract material in an environment that retains the essentially passive nature of a book or periodical, albeit in a slightly different format

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