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At another level of organization, we can put together a drupal distribution that would provide pre-built features that are conducive to the type of content we specialize in. So, what is that type of content?

Basically, what we are looking at is a new type of textbook. One that makes it as easy as possible for content experts to write interactive textbooks, or perhaps create websites that would serve as textbook companions. There might need to be some types of content that area easily created without hiring anybody. In fact, I'm sure there would need to be such, but also easy plugins so that people who hired a web developer to create custom content would be able to hook that into the database as easily as possible.

So, what features would the distribution need, beyond what we are already providing through the e_book? One way to look at it is in terms of work-flow. What would a content expert do in order to author books in the system, and how can this be made as easy and intuitive as it can possibly be?

Another way of looking at it is to select a subject area that we want to target specifically, such as math or chemistry. Something that requires specialized notations or tools that make it difficult to press a plain vanilla drupal site into useful service.

I should probably have started this as a forum rather than a book, but we can treat this particular page as though it were a forum by collecting ideas in comment form, and just sticking with those threads. A drupal forum is not much more than a collection of comments anyway.