Thirteen years ago I used Business to post The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators. It was an eBook written in collaboration with great people including Larry Ferlazzo, Adam Bellow, Kelly Tenkely, Beth Still, George Couros, Steven Anderson, Lee Kolbert, Patrick Larkin, Cory Plow, and Sylvia Rosenthal Tolisano. I had forgotten about it until last night when Issuu sent me an email notifying me that my file would soon be too large for their free plan.
Issuu is a service for hosting PDF files and displaying them with page flip effects. As you can see, I have used it for a long time. The free plan was quite generous. That will change in February. The new free plan will limit files to 50mb. But if your file is less than 50mb and more than 50 pages, it will not be compatible with the free plan. The other significant change is that you can no longer have files not listed on Issuu’s free plan.
Changes to Issuu’s free plan mean almost the end of The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators in its current format. I still have the original document, so if you want to read what we thought 13 years ago, send me an email and I’ll send you a copy.
